History of Psychology

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Define: Psychology

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Study of how humans think, feel and act

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Who was nicknamed the "Father of Psychology"?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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An approach in psychology in which the psychologist studies how unconscious motives & conflicts determines human behavior

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psychoanalyst

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Who was the first modern psychologist interested in the unconscious mind?

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Sigmund Freud

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This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875 and created the first psychology textbook.

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William James

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Who started the first lab for the study of psychology, establishing modern psychology as a separate formal field of study? Options: Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Francis Gaulton, Wolfgang Kohler

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Wilhelm Wundt

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A psychologist who analyzes observable behavior & studies conditioning & reinforcement

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behaviorist

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Which early psychological perspective believes that the mind can be broken up into separate parts?

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structuralism

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Psychologists study human _______________________ by observing and measuring how people act.

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behavior

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The psychological perspective concerned with physiological and biochemical factors that determine behavior and mental processes.

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biological