Psychology Chapter 1

Psychology is best defined as the scientific study of...

• Dreams and the waking mind

• Behavior and mental processes

• The brain and nervous system

• Personality and motivation

As used in Wundt's lab, examining one's own thoughts and feelings is known as...

• Introspection
• Extraversion
• Associationism

• Biofeedback

Psychology is both a natural and a social science. Another example of a natural science is ​ (a)   and an example of a social science would be ​ (b)   .

• biology
• history

Behaviorism changed our perspective of psychology in that it was concerned mostly with...

• Thoughts

• Dreams

• Observations

• Feelings

Freud popularized the idea that most of what exists in the mind is unconscious. This major theory is known as...

• Behaviorism
• Humanism

• Biopsychosocial psychology

• Psychodynamic thinking

Match the following individuals to the correct psychological perspective

• Structuralism

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Humanism

• Abraham Maslow

• Functionalism

• William James

• Behaviorism

• Sigmund Freud

• Psychoanalysis

• John B. Watson

  and B.F. Skinner

(a)   cannot prescribe medication while ​ (b)   can.

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists

Cognitive psychologists compare the brain to a...

Which person from the classical world do we attribute the idea of associationism to?

• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Hippocrates

Which person do we consider to be the father of psychology?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• William James