Learning Targets 1.A and 1.B - History of Psychology

The parent disciplines of psychology were

• philosophy and physiology.

• biology and chemistry.

• philosophy and structuralism.

• structuralism and functionalism.

Who created the first psychological laboratory?

• Edward Bradford Titchener

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B. Watson

• Sigmund Freud

You are asked to taste a piece of chocolate and explain all of your inner thoughts as you do so. You are using a technique similar to that of which early school of psychology?

• Functionalism

• Behaviorism

• Structuralism

• Psychoanalysis

Structuralism ultimately failed due to its reliance on which technique, which was unscientific because it yielded inconsistent results?

• Introspection

• Free association

• Conditioning

• Evolutionary analysis

William James and the school of functionalism relied heavily on whose works?

• Sigmund Freud

• John B. Watson

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Charles Darwin

Whereas structuralism focused on identifying a model of mind, functionalism focused on identifying the mind's

• hidden unconscious.

• ability to learn.

• evolved purpose.

• capacity to heal.

Margaret Floy Washburn is remembered as the first woman to

• be president of the American Psychological Association.

• earn a PhD in psychology.

• publish a book on psychology.

• challenge Sigmund Freud's theories.

According to Freud's model, a person who can't control their urges probably has an underdeveloped

• id

• ego

• superego

Freud's theories are unique in that they focus on

• conditioned responses.

• only what is objectively observable.

• the hidden unconscious.

• evolution.

Gestalt psychology focuses on which of the following?

• How we create a whole from the many parts.

• How humans learn.

• Uncovering past traumas.

• How evolution explains human development.