How Did Psychology Develop?

All of the following are examples of a behavior EXCEPT

• Thinking

• Yawning

• Stretching

• Cursing at someone

These are the goals of psychology except

• To describe

• To explain

• To Learn

• To Predict

Which type of early psychologist believed that “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”?

• Gestalt

• behaviorist

• structuralist

• functionalist

Who is credited with coming up with structuralism?

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Edward Titchener

• William James

• G. Stanley Hall

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

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

What early perspective did not care about the "parts" of the mind but rather how the mind adapts to what we need to survive?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empiricism

This psychologist discovered classical conditioning by conducting an experiment with dogs, thus proposed that behaviors could be learned via conditioned associations:

• Abraham Maslow

• Ivan Pavlov

• Jean Piaget

• Sigmund Freud

Who studied unconscious and conscious behavior?

• Sigmund Freud
• B.F. Skinner
• Ivan Pavlov
• John B. Watson

Who said the following? "I opened the first psychology lab in Germany."

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Charles Darwin

• Mary Calkins

• William James

Answer explanation

Wilhelm Wundt's lab asked participants to use introspection to describe their experiences with sensory stimuli.