Wundt and the development of Psychology

Who is considered the father of experimental psychology?

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

• B.F. Skinner

• Carl Rogers

In which year did Wilhelm Wundt open the first experimental psychology laboratory?

• 1900

• 1913

• 1879

• 1950

Which approach did Sigmund Freud establish?

• Behaviourist

• Humanistic

• Cognitive

• Psychodynamic

What is the main focus of the behaviourist approach?

• Studying the unconscious mind

• Observing and measuring observable behaviours

• Understanding the whole person

• Investigating mental processes

Which approach emerged in the 1950s, emphasising the importance of free will?

• Cognitive

• Biological

• Humanistic

• Psychodynamic

What technological advancement in the 1980s helped the biological approach become dominant?

• The invention of the computer

• Brain scanning techniques

• The development of psychoanalysis

• The introduction of introspection

What does the cognitive approach focus on studying?

• Observable behaviours

• Free will

• Mental processes

• Biological structures

What is introspection, as developed by Wilhelm Wundt?

• A method of brain scanning

• A process of examining one's inner thoughts and emotions

• A type of behaviourist experiment

• A form of psychoanalysis

Which approach combines the biological and cognitive approaches to investigate how biological structures influence mental states?

• Humanistic

• Behaviourist

• Cognitive neuroscience

• Psychodynamic

What is the main criticism of Wundt's method of introspection according to behaviourists?

• It is too focused on biological processes

• It is too subjective and not generalisable

• It relies too heavily on technology

• It ignores the unconscious mind