History and Methods of Psychology

The founder of structuralism

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Psamtik I

• Sigmund Freud

Who was nicknamed the "Father of Psychology"?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Edward Titchener

• William James

• G. Stanley Hall

What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

This early psychological perspective believes that the mind can be broken up into separate parts?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

What theory states that all knowledge should be collected through the senses/observation/experimentation?

• empiricism

• structuralism

• functionalism

• introspection

What early perspective did not care about the "parts" of the mind but rather how the mind adapts to what we need to survive?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empiricism

The _____ began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings.

• Greeks
• Chinese
• Americans
• Romans

Case study

• Study of one individual in great detail

• Observation of human or animal behavior in its natural setting

• An inexpensive and quick method of gaining information about people's opinions, attitudes, and perceptions.

• Experiment using a variety of different hypotheses

Survey

• Study of one individual in great detail

• An inexpensive and quick method of gaining information about people's opinions, attitudes, and perceptions.

• Observation of human or animal behavior in its natural setting.

• Experiment using a variety of different hypothesis

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded...

• Random experiment

• single-blind experiment

• stratified experiment

• double-blind experiment