Psych - Unit 1 - Chapter 1 Quiz

The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter is

• G. Stanley Hall

• Rene Descartes

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of psychology was on the scientific study of

• observable behavior

• conscious experience

• unconscious motivation

• the functions of behavior

The person who established America's first psychological research laboratory and who launched America's first psychology journal was

• John Watson

• William James

• G. Stanley Hall

• Edward Titchener

In a discussion with your professor she tells you that she believes that the focus of psychological study should be to break the conscious experience into its basic elements. Which of the following historical schools of thought is your professor's idea MOST consistent with?

• behaviorism

• functionalism

• structuralism

• psychoanalysis

In an attempt to learn something about his conscious experience, William looked at an abstract painting and wrote down all of his impressions as they came to him. This technique is called

• introspection

• retrospection

• empiricism

• psychoanalysis

The school of psychology associated with understanding the purpose of behavior was

• functionalism

• behaviorism

• neodynamism

• psychoanalysis

The term used by William James to describe a continuous flow of thoughts was

• existential awareness

• stream of consciousness

• transcendental meditation

• phenomenological flow

The first woman to serve as president of the American Psychological Association was

• Mary Calkins

• Margaret Washburn

• Leta Hollingworth

• Anna Freud

Sigmund Freud developed an innovative procedure for treating people with psychological problems, which he called

• behavior modification

• functionalism

• psychoanalysis

• humanism

Freud concluded that psychological disturbances are largely caused by

• unrealistic demands from family and friends

• personal conflicts existing at an unconscious level

• genetic predispositions to behave in a particular way

• conflicts between conscious desires and environmental constraints