Psychology Origins

Psychology can best be described as:

• scientific study of the mind
• scientific study of behavior
• study of humans and animals
• scientific study of the mind and behavior

This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875.

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Francis Gaulton

• Wolfgang Kohler

The _____ began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings.

• Greeks
• Chinese
• Americans
• Romans

The notion that the mind and body are separate and distinct.

• monolism
• dualism
• funtionalism
• structuralism 

This person started the first lab for the study of psychology establishing modern psychology as a separate formal field of study. 

• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James
• Francis Gaulton
• Wolfgang Kohler

A psychologist who studied how mental processes help people & animals adapt to their environment

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

A psychologist who studied the basic elements of conscious mental experiences

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

A psychologist who studied the actions of the conscious mind and the goals or purposes of behaviors and how people adapt to their environment

• structurlist
• functionalist
• dualist
• cognitivist

In psychology. "behavior" is best defined as:

• anything a person says, does, or feels
• any action we can observe and record
• any action, whether observable or not
• anything we can infer from a person's actions

Who is credited with creating functionalism?

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Edward Titchener

• William James

• G. Stanley Hall