Final Review Psychology

What is psychology?

• study of how to become wealthy through he power of thought

• the study of mental processes and behavior

• the study of how to get friends and influence others

• the study of human and animal behavior

This scientist believed that by studying animals, we could better understand human behavior.

• William James

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Charles Darwin

He is known as the "Father of Psychology"

• Wilhelm Wundt

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Charles Darwin

He founded American psychology and was the first to publish a psychology textbook.

• John Watson

• Wilhelm Wundt

• B.F. Skinner

• William James

He studied dogs and observed classical conditioning when dogs would drool at the sound of a bell.

• Ivan Pavlov

• B.F. Skinner

• John Watson

• John Locke

He was responsible for operant conditioning, where learning comes from rewards and punishment.

• Ivan Pavlov

• John Watson

• B.F. Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

Created psychoanalysis and believed personality was influenced by experiences.

• Sigmund Freud

• John Watson

• Aristotle

• John Locke

Early behaviorist who wrote a book about raising children

• Ivan Pavlov

• John Locke

• John Watson

• Sigmund Freud

Believed the mind was a blank slate (tabula rasa) where we write our experiences and observations

• Aristotle

• Sigmund Freud

• John Locke

• John Watson

Which was the Greek philosopher who suggested that the heart was the seat of all mental processes?

• Charles Darwin

• Aristotle

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Ivan Pavlov