Research and Experiment

Who was nicknamed the "Father of Psychology"?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Edward Titchener

• William James

• Sir Francis Bacon

An approach in psychology in which the psychologist studies how unconscious motives & conflicts determines human behavior

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

The first modern psychologist who was interested in the uncounsious minds was

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Francis Galton
• Sigmund Freud
• Ivan Pavlov

This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875 and created the first psychology textbook. 

• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James
• Francis Gaulton
• Wolfgang Kohler

A psychologist who analyzes observable behavior & studies conditioning & reinforcement

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

Which early psychological perspective believes that the mind can be broken up into separate parts?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

Dr. Didden was hired by the TLC Company to help it retain its employees without lowering the firm’s profits. After TLC removed cubicles and permitted employees to decorate their workroomas recommended by Dr. Didden, the absentee rate declined and no employees left for jobs else- where. Dr. Didden is most likely to be

• clinical psychologist

• counseling psychologist

• industrial/organizational psychologist

• forensic psychologists

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they

• help people cope with challenges and crises.

• conduct research.

• experiment with how people perceive, think, and solve problems.

• are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication.

What does the correlational method attempt to establish?

• Causation

• Purpose of the unconscious mind

• A relationship between two variables

• A dependent variable

an inactive substance or fake treatment used to control for confounding variable

• Causation

• Evolution

• Placebo

• Independent Variable