Ch. 1 Historical Perspectives in Psychology

Who had the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

• William James
• Edward Titchner
• Wilhelm Wundt
• G. Stanley Hall

Who studied unconscious and conscious behavior?

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

Which "school" of psychology focused on components of the conscious experience?

• humanism
• behaviorism
• structuralism
• functionalism

Self-reflective introspection about the elements of experience best describes a technique used by which school of psychology? 

• Darwinists 
• Empiricists
• Structuralists 
• Psychiatrists

Arguments as to whether psychological differences between men and women result from biological or social influences most clearly involve a debate over the issue of

• evolution versus natural selection.
  
• continuous versus non-continuous.
• structuralism versus functionalism.
• nature versus nurture.

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they 

• Help people cope with challenges and crisis 
• conduct research
• are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medicine 
• explore how we view and affect one another

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

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

A focus on genetics, chemical imbalances, and brain differences between humans characterizes the

• sociocultural approach
• humanistic approach
• biological approach
• behavioral approach

This individual won a nobel prize for his work on the digestive system, but also studied conditioned reflexes in dogs.

• B.F. Skinner
• Jean Piaget
• Ivan Pavlov
• Peter Parker

Match the following subfields to what they focus on

• Helping people with day-to-day problems

• Developmental

• Increasing office efficiency

• Industrial and Organizational

• Treating serious mental disorders

• Counseling

• Changes over the lifespan

• School

• Helping individual students

• Clinical