AP Psych Unit #1 - History & Perspectives

Which philosopher would have been most enthusiastic about modern empiricism?

• Rene Descartes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Socrates

In Wilhelm Wundt's experiments, participants were asked to press a key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving a sound. By asking participants to examine and report their conscious experiences, Wundt was making use of which of the following?

• Introspection
• empiricism
• tabula rasa
• functionalism

Which of the following psychologists most clearly rejected the value of introspection?

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Edward Titchner
• John B. Watson
• Sigmund Freud

Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a “blank slate”?

• Rene Descarte
• John Locke
• George Berkeley
• Aristotle

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

• Edward Titchner
• Jean Piaget
• John B. Watson
• William James

Behaviorists dismissed the value of

• neuroscience
• reinforcement
• Introspection
• science

Dr. Lipka is involved in an applied research study of customer satisfaction with a newly developed line of facial cosmetics and other beauty aids. Dr. Lipka is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.

• Clinical
• Industrial-Organizational 
• Developmental 
• Social

Who had the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

• William James
• Edward Titchner
• Wilhelm Wundt
• G. Stanley Hall

Professor Reed attempts to assess the relative contributions of heredity and home environment on children's susceptibility to depression. Her research best illustrates the concerns of the ____ approach

• psychodynamic
• cognitive
• humanistic
• biopsychosocial

The biological perspective in psychology would most likely emphasize that behavior is influenced by

• environmental circumstances
• memory processe
• unconscious conflicts
• blood chemistry