Quiz 1 Pg 1-6

Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of

•  personality development
•  social influence.
•  animal intelligence.
•  mental processes.

Research participants are asked to monitor and report their own immediate sensory reactions to differently colored objects. This research involves a technique known as

•  behavior genetics.
•  psychoanalysis.
•  introspection.
•  massed practice.

Edward Titchener is to structuralism as William James is to ________.

•  behaviorism
•  humanistic psychology
•  cognitive neuroscience
• functionalism

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies observable human activity without reference to mental processes is known as

• behaviorism
•  positive psychology.
•  cognitive neuroscience.
•  humanistic psychology.

Sherry is often overly generous in sacrificing her time to help others. Her friend suggests that by keeping busy in this way Sherry avoids confronting her own unconscious conflicts. Her friend's suggestion illustrates the type of explanation that is most typical of

•  cognitive neuroscience.
•  structuralism.
•  Freudian psychology.
•  evolutionary psychology.