Psychology

The notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of conscious experience is MOST closely linked with

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• John B. Watson

Christine is a psychologist who conducts research on the effects of reward on maze learning in rats. Christine would MOST likely be considered a

• behaviorist

• structuralist

• psychoanalyst

• Gestalt psychologist

When Watson claimed "Give me a dozen healthy infants..." he was arguing that behavior is strongly influenced by

• heredity factors

• environmental factors

• cultural factors

• subjective factors

Structuralism is the historical school of psychology that asserted that the purpose of psychology was to:

• study behavior

• discover the smaller elements that comprise consciousness

• explore the unconscious

• examine the purposes of conscious processes

A psychologist who is interested in the psychological effect of aging would MOST likely specialize in

• cognitive psychology

• experimental psychology

• developmental psychology

• psychometrics

The person who established America's first psychological research laboratory and who launched America's first psychology journal was

• John Watson

• William James

• G. Stanley Hall

• Edward Titchener

The notion that unconscious motivations can influence our overt behavior is MOST consistent with the views of

• Carl Rogers

• Wilhelm Wundt

• B.F.Skinner

• Sigmund Freud.

Which core psychological research area is primarily devoted to the study of such topics as memory, problem solving, and thinking?

• physiological

• social

• cognitive

• personality

The scientific approach assumes that

• events are governed by some lawful order

• each event is completely unique

• there are no general laws or principles that apply to human behavior.

• the search for absolute truth is the ultimate goal

Which is NOT among the goals of scientific psychology?

• the development of measurement techniques for describing behavior precisely and accurately

• understanding why certain behaviors occur

• applications of research findings to solve everyday problems

• searching for absolute truths about behavior