Unit 1 Psych 2020

Psychology is defined as

• Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• Study of society

• Study of the brain

• None of the above

Who established the first Psych lab?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Freud

• Carl Rogers

What is "behavior" in Psychology?

• anything people do, think, or feel

• anything we can observe and record

• how people act

• All of the above

Founder of structuralism...

• William James

• Edward Titchener

• BF Skinner

• John Watson

Psychology has roots in

• anatomy and physiology

• philosophy and biology

• physics and biology

• chemistry and philosophy

Which perspective would explain behavior as a result of certain neurons firing in the brain?

• biological/neuroscience

• biophysics

• social psychology

• psychoanalytic psychology

Which perspective would argue that behavior is a result of a certain thought process?

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• Evolutionary

People who study, assess and treat patients in psych are called

• clinical psychologists

• IO Psychologists

• School Psychologists

• None of the above