History of Psychology

Empiricism is:

• the study of how one person influences another

• the practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits

• the idea that all knowledge comes from experience

• a school of psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness

In which country was modern psychology developed?

• The United States

• China

• England

• Germany

What event, in 1879, established psychology as a science?

• The American Psychological Association (APA) was founded.

• The term psychology was first used in newspaper articles.

• Wundt added a laboratory experience to his experimental psychology lectures.

• The first American psychology laboratory was established.

How did Wundt study consciousness?

• His students gave self-reports of their reactions to stimuli.

• He tested the behavior of drunken and sober subjects.

• He compared human behavior to chimpanzee behavior.

• He conducted brain scans.

By the year ______ there were more than 40 experimental psychology laboratories in the US and Canada.

• 1950

• 1990

• 1900

• 1880

Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?

• She was the first female president of the APA.

• She was the first person to get a PhD in psychology in the US.

• She was the first woman to get her PhD in psychology in the US and the second female president of the APA.

• She was the founder of Gestalt psychology.

James, Hall, and Cattell were part of a group that embraced ______ and was influenced by evolutionary theory.

• empiricism

• structuralism

• behaviorism

• functionalism

What claim did William James make about consciousness in the book Principles of Psychology?

• The experience of consciousness is shared by animals and humans.

• Consciousness cannot be reduced to its component parts.

• Consciousness can be studied by carefully studying brain anatomy and physiology.

• Consciousness is an illusion.

What was the role of women in research psychology in the US in the first half of the 1900s?

• Only Harvard-educated women were permitted to do research.

• Women could study psychology but could not work professionally.

• Some women participated, but faced many barriers.

• Women were prohibited from research until 1930.

Who founded the American Psychological Association in 1892?

• James Mckeen Cattell

• William James

• B.F. Skinner

• G. Stanley Hall