Module 1

Module 1

By Richard Orton

​Prescientific Psychology 1-1

Subject | Subject

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Multiple Choice

Which philosopher would have been most enthusiastic about modern empiricism?

• a. Plato

• b. Socrates

• c. Aristotle

• d. René Descartes

• e. Immanuel Kant

Multiple Choice

Descartes' theory of how our brain controlled our reflexes involved which of the following?

• a. structuralism and functionalism

• b. brain fluid and “animal spirits”

• c. blank slate and empiricism

• d. astrology and tabula rasa

• e. innate knowledge and experimental data

​Psychological science is born 1-2

Subject | Subject

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Multiple Choice

Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology?

• a. Wilhelm Wundt

• b. John B. Watson

• c. Sigmund Freud

• d. William James

• e. Mary Calkins

Multiple Choice

Contemporary psychologists are most likely to reject which of the following as appropriate for the study of psychology?

• a. empiricism

• b. observation

• c. introspection

• d. experimentation

• e. mental activity

​Psychological science develops 1-3

Subject | Subject

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Multiple Choice

Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and to define psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior”?

• a. John B. Watson

• b. Edward Titchener

• c. Wilhelm Wundt

• d. Jean Piaget

• e. William James

Multiple Choice

Which area of psychology might be best suited to investigate the following research question:

what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events, and how does this process affect behavior?

• a. structuralism

• b. behaviorism

• c. humanistic psychology

• d. cognitive neuroscience

• e. functionalist psychology

Open Ended

Identify the founder of structuralism, and explain

structuralism’s four foundational concepts.

(6 points)