Psych intro quiz 1

Psychology is the scientific study of ____________ and mental processes.

• behavior

• the mind

• the spirit

• the brain

Believed to be the first person to conduct a psychology experiment about language?

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Psamtik

• Sigmund Freud

Behaviors are activities that

• happen in the mind

• are observable and/or measurable

• stem from the unconscious

A theory is the same as

• an educated guess

• an evidence supported explanation for something

• a principle, truth, or law

• a hypothesis

What is the term for the process of looking within, as described by Socrates famous quote "know thyself".

• association

• consciousness

• introspection

• conservationism

According to Hippocrates, the 4 humors were

• bodily fluids that influenced behavior.

• personality characteristics.

• good jokes to tell

• curses from the gods.

Wilhelm Wundt, credited with founding modern psychology, developed the idea of structuralism, or

• the idea that consciousness can be broken down into individual components/pieces

• the idea that consciousness serves a function, which is the only thing worthy of study.

• the idea that you our subconscious drives our behavior.

William James' functionalism states that

• consciousness is a single stream, and serves a specific purpose.

• consciousness is made up of different elements for different purposes, and those elements can be examined and explained.

• consciousness has 2 lower levels, known as the subconscious and the unconscious, which impact behavior.

__________ developed the idea of the unconscious, which he believed was full of unhappy and unacceptable thoughts.

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Aristotle

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner are credited with making psychology more scientific because they ______.

• studied only the observable and measureable aspects of psychology.

• explored the nature of the unconscious mind and the meaning of thoughts.

• analyzed mental processes and attempted to pinpoint their location in the mind.

• sought to deconstruct the cognitive activities of a human through introspection.