Module 1-3 B

You are at a lecture about the history of Psychology and the speaker states that Wilhelm Wundt's theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychology theory. On what historical fact might the speaker be basing her or his argument?

• Wundt was internationally know at the time and this lent credence to his theory in the scientific community
• Wundt was the first person to study psychology in an academic setting
• Structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments. so it is, at least in part empirical
• Structuralism was based on careful ancedotes gathered from Wundt's extensive clinical career

Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely cause by the way the client interprets the coworker's actions and the way he thinks that peopl should behave at work.  Dr. Marco is most likely working from what persepctive?

• Behavioral
• Cognitive
• Psychoanalytic
• Humanist

B.F. Skinner introduced the idea of___________  to the paradigm of behaviorism.

• Unconscious thinking
• Reinforcment
• Conditioning
• Introspection

Symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from which of the following perspectives?

• behaviorist
• biopsychologist
• psychoanalytic
• evolutionary

Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?

• Social-Cultural
• Psychodynamic
• Behavioral
• Functionalist

The debate about the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?

• Evolutionary
• Behaviorism
• Cognitive
• Nature vs. Nurture

Self-reflective introspection about the elements of experience best describes a technique used by which school of psychology?

• Darwinsits
• Empiriscist
• Strucuralist
• Behaviorist

Which of the following statements is the best example of applied research?

• Investigating personality traits
• Using psychological concepts to boost worker productivity
• Experimenting withh how people perceive different stimuli
• Exploring the neutral changes that occur during adolescence

Which school of psychology focused on the adaptive nature of thinking and how our consciousness evolves to meet our needs?

• Functionalist 
• Structuralist
• Behavioral
• Humansitic

Which field of psychology is most interested in studying the link between mental activity and brain activity?

• Evolutionary
• Cognitive
• Humanistic
• Biological