Domain 1 / Module 2 - Make It Stick

William Wundt is considered the founder of psychology as a science because

• it was decided that clinical psychology should become a medical field

• he conducted important research on the unconscious mind

• he established the first experimental psychology laboratory

• he won the Nobel Prize for science

Which research question would have been most interesting to the Gestalt psychologists?

• Why do we perceive objects in specific groups?

• Can introspection be used to describe thought accurately?

• What is the structure of conscious experience?

• How is our personality expressed in our dreams?

According to the textbook, who wrote that mental process evolve over time?

• Wundt (introspection)

• Titchener (structuralism)

• James (functionalism)

• A Gestalt psychologist

Which of the following is associated with the notion that the whole is different from the sum of its parts?

• Functionalism

• Gestalt

• Structuralism

• Introspection

Who wrote the first psychology textbook?

• James

• Wundt

• Titchener

• Maltese

Sigmund Freud's theories differed from all other earliest theories because of his emphasis on

• the effect of the unconscious mind on our thinking and behavior

• our conscious experience and perception of the world around us

• introspection as a form of gathering data about thinking

• experimental research and gathering data on observable behaviors

What was Watson's primary complaint about early psychological theories?

• Early theories emphasized human actions instead of basic thinking behind them.

• Early theories addressed thinking instead of observable behaviors.

• Early theories were based on experimental methods instead of introspection.

• Early theories were too closely tied to William James's work.

Which of the following would most likely to be said by a behaviorist?

• We should only study observable behaviors.

• We should only study mental processes.

• We should only study drives and conflicts.

• We should only study conscious experiences.

Which of the following, considered by some to be the third force in psychology, would most likely be associated with the idea that humans have free will in their decision making?

• Behaviorism

• Psychoanalysis

• Development

• Humanism

Striving to reach one's potential in a field of study picked up by which of the following kinds of psychologists?

• Humanistic

• Psychoanalytic

• Positive

• Developmental