Psych Quiz

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of:

• conscious and unconscious mental activity

• observable responses to the environment

• observable behavior and mental processes

• thoughts, feelings, and perceptions

Who studied unconscious and conscious behavior?

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• John B. Watson

Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

• Ivan Pavlov

• B.F. Skinner

In 1879, in Leipzig, Germany, the first psychological laboratory was overseen by ______________.

• William James

• William Tell

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they 

• Help people cope with challenges and crisis 
• conduct research
• are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medicine 
• explore how we view and affect one another

Considered to be the 'father of Psychology'

• Descartes

• Wundt

• Freud

• Klein

The goals of Psychology are

• to study mental processing and behavior.

• Describe, explain, predict and control human behavior/mental processing.

• similar to the goals of sociology and other humanities courses.

• best described in chapter two of our textbook.

Psychologists are empirical in their methods.

• True

• False

Visual Perception

• overlapping fields of vision being combined into one image
• brain remembering images for a short time and combing them
• our eyes and brain working together to determine what we see
• when our visual information is different than what the brain "expects"

If an object reflects purple light and absorbs other colors, what color will that object appear to be in daylight to someone with normal color vision?

• any color except purple, depending on the object’s density
• purple
• black or gray
• white or gray, depending on the object’s reflectivity