History pt1

What is the goal of psychology according to Passer (2020)?

• To explain and predict behavior

• To describe and control behavior

• To predict and control behavior

• To describe and understand behavior

Who is considered the pioneer of psychoanalysis?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B. Watson

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

What is the term used for the philosophy of the science of behavior?

• Methodological Behaviorism

• Radical Behaviorism

• Teleological Behaviorism

• Stimulus-Response Psychology

Who opened the first psychological laboratory in 1879?

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

• John B. Watson

• Wilhelm Wundt

What is the term used for the looking into our own minds and reporting what we there discover?

• Functionalism

• Introspection

• Consciousness

• Structuralism

Who argued for substance dualism, stating that minds and bodies are distinct substances that interact?

• René Descartes

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• John B. Watson

What is the term used for thoughts, memories, and desires that are below the surface of awareness and exert influence over behavior?

• Conscious

• Preconscious

• Unconscious

• Subconscious

Who is considered the pioneer of structuralism?

• John B. Watson

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

Who is considered the pioneer of functionalism?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B. Watson

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

What is the term used for the theoretical orientation with the premise that scientific psychology should study observable behavior?

• Methodological Behaviorism

• Radical Behaviorism

• Teleological Behaviorism

• Stimulus-Response Psychology