Psychology Quiz

Who created the first psychological laboratory?

• Abraham Maslow

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Ivan Pavlov

What animals were involved in Pavlov's experiments on conditioned reflexes?

• A dog

• A cat

• A mouse

• A frog

Empathy is

• the ability to understand the emotional state of another

• a conscious experience created after the physical sensation or emotional experience

• an inquiry or request for information, usually expressed in the form of a sentence

• a struggle and a clash of interests, opinions, or even principles.

What is empathy?

• the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli

• emotional, intellectual, and theoretical, in which case academic recognition may, or may not be, a significant motive

• the ability to store more information for long periods of time (lifetimes) like phone numbers, names and address from when we were kids

• the capacity to place oneself in another's position

The word "psychology" comes from specific Greek word-psyche, which means

• behavior

• mental process

• "mind" or "soul"

• feeling

What is behavior?

• a process, a particular kind of automatic appraisal influenced by our evolutionary and personal past

• anything we do (overt actions and reactions)

• physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes

• the current experience of the feeling of an emotion (affect) such as pleasure or joy

Major branches of psychology are

• Sociology, empiricism

• Hedonism, ethical philosophy

• Social, clinical psychology

• Positive psychology, Pedagogy

Why is psychology considered a science?

• because it uses empirical research and careful observation to examine how people behave and think

• because it has a long history

• because it is an ancient study of character or destiny based on the belief that there is a relationship between astronomical objects, events, and living things.

• because it helps us understand ourselves better and provides us with tools for improving our lives.

What is psychology?

• a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

• the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

• a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

• the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.

Psychology as a distinct scientific discipline emerged

• in the final decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new interdisciplinary approach to studying human psychology, known collectively as cognitive science.

• In the 16 century

• 32,000 years ago, around 30,000 to 10,000 BC

• around the late 1870s when Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychological laboratory to study the mind scientifically.