What is Psychology?

_____________ refers to the scientific study of the mind and behavior.

• Psychology

• History

• Social Studies

• Sociology

The ____________ for acquiring knowledge is one based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities.

• History of Psychology

• Empirical Method

• Scientific Method

• Contemporary Psychology

When did psychology become its own academic discipline?

• Late 1600s

• Late 1700s

• Late 1800s

• Early 1900s

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why an education in psychology is valuable?

• Strong communication skills

• Strong critical thinking

• Learning about connections between biology and behavior

• None of the above

William James and __________ are considered/credited as being the founders of psychology as a science and academic discipline separate from philosophy.

• Freud

• Plato

• Wundt

• Dewey

Match the following terms with the correct defintion.

• Humanism

• A perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans.

• Functionalism

• Focus on how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment. Functionalism

• Introspection

• A process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible, making the human mind like any other aspect of nature that a scientist observed.

• Structuralism

• Focus was on the contents of mental processes rather than their function.

• Behaviorism

• The approach of observing and controlling behavior.

This psychologist, the student of Wilheim Wundt, was the psychologist who developed the idea of structuralism.

• Wundt

• Freud

• James

• Titchener

Functional psychology (functionalism) draws upon the theory of natural selection, which came from ____________.

• Freud

• Darwin

• Wundt

• Dewey

Sigmund Freud is one of the most well known psychologists and he developed the theory that the role of a person’s unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences, and this particular perspective dominated clinical psychology for several decades

• Psychoanalytical Theory

• Functionalism Theory

• Cognitive Theory

• Behavioral Theory

This form of psychology was started by three German psychologists and was not as influential in the US. This form of psychology deals with the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception.

• Gestalt Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Functional Psychology

• Social Psychology