Psychology History

The earliest history of psychology can be traced back to the time of the early ___________.

• Greeks

• Romans

• English

• Americans

____________ treated psychology as a sub-branch of natural philosophy because he regarded the soul as the basic principle of life.

• Rene Descartes

• Aristotle

• William James

• Ivan Pavlov

Rene Descartes introduced the idea of _______________.

• Introspection

• Behaviorism

• Dualism

• Structuralism

This theory asserted that the mind and body were two entities that interact to form the human experience. What is the theory?

• Humanism

• Functionalism

• Psuchê

• Dualism

A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences

• Structuralist

• Functionalist

• Behaviorist

• Cognitivist

What is introspection?

• A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings

• A method of studying the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness

• A method of analyzing how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment

• A method of studying how we process, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior

Which Psychologist perceived psychology as the study of human consciousness and sought to apply experimental methods to studying internal mental processes?

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Ivan Pavlov

• Sigmund Freud

Which psychologist opened the world's first psychology lab in 1878?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• Jean Piaget

• Abraham Maslow

A psychologist who studied the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness. They study how animals and people adapt to their environments.

• Structuralist

• Behavioralist

• Functionalist

• Humanist

Who is known as the father of American psychology?

• William James

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• William James