Psychology U1 Ch1

What is a theory?

• Predictions without logic.

• A statement that tries to explain why things are the way they are.

• A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.

• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Who is Socrates?

• A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery.

• German psychologist who founded psychology as a formal science.

• Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training rats & pigeons.

• A Greek philosopher; Socratic method --questioning.

Learning is...

a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.

• True

• False

Behavior is...

• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• A statement that tries to explain why things are the way they are.

• Any action that people can observe or measure.

• The psychological view that stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment.

Socrates was a _____ philosopher

B.F. Skinner is...

a German psychologist.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

B.F. Skinner is an American behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by training pigeons and rats.

Wilhelm Wundt founded which school of psychology?

• Structuralism.

• Behaviorism.

• Functionalism.

• Humanism.

What is structuralism?

• School of psychology that was founded by William James.

• The psychological view that stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment.

• The school of psychology that conscious experience breaks down into sensations.

• Any action that people can observe or measure.

Who opened the first psychology research laboratory?

• Socrates.

• B.F. Skinner.

• William James.

• Wilhelm Wundt.

Type of psychologists who focus on the study of mental disorders.

• Counseling.

• Environmental.

• Experimental.

• Clinical.