Unit 1 Test

Who founded structuralism and is the first modern psychologist?

• BF Skinner

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B. Watson

• Ivan Pavlov

BF Skinner investigated positive and negative reinforcement for learned behavior

• True

• False

What type of correlation is this graph?

• Negative

• Positive

• Zero

Who is the father of psychology?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Carl Rogers

• BF Skinner

• Abraham Maslow

What are the 4 Goals of Psychology?

• Abnormal Psychology

• Biological,Cognition, Developmental, Social and Personality,Mental and Physical

• Health Psychology

• Describe, Explain, Predict, Control

1. What is the School of psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior?

• Structuralism

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

• Functionalism

Which of the following is true about human participation in research?

• Participation is Voluntary, and that participants grant informed consent

• Participants may receive final report of the study

• Participant may withdraw from study at any time with no penalty

• All of the above

Research variables can typically be manipulated

• False

• True

Evolutionary psychology explores how human behavior evolved

• True

• False

Research studies that do not test specific relationships between variables

• Descriptive Research

• Social Research

• experimental research

• Correlation Research