College of Arts and Sciences – Multiple Choice Worksheet

Read each item carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

Which philosopher is known as an empiricist who emphasized observation and sensory experience as the source of knowledge?

• Descartes

• Kant

• Aristotle

• Plato

Which school of thought aimed to analyze the mind into its basic components, such as attention and memory?

• Functionalism

• Behaviorism

• Structuralism

• Gestalt

Who is considered the “father of behaviorism”?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B. Watson

• B.F. Skinner

• Edward Thorndike

Which psychologist developed the Forgetting Curve through experiments on memory?

• Ebbinghaus

• Tolman

• Thorndike

• Pavlov

Cognitive Psychology primarily studies ______.

• Emotional behavior

• Mental processes like memory and reasoning

• Physical brain structures only

• Genetic development

The ability to adapt across diverse cultural settings is known as ______.

• Emotional Intelligence

• Cultural Intelligence

• General Intelligence

• Fluid Intelligence

Who proposed the Three-Stratum Model of Intelligence?

• Robert Sternberg

• John B. Carroll

• Raymond Cattell

• Charles Spearman

According to Sternberg, Practical Intelligence deals with:

• Street smarts and real-world problem solving

• Abstract reasoning

• Creativity and imagination

• Academic analysis

What is the key difference between Fluid (Gf) and Crystallized (Gc) intelligence?

• Fluid is acquired knowledge; Crystallized is problem-solving ability

• Fluid relates to reasoning; Crystallized relates to learned skills and facts

• Fluid deals with social skills; Crystallized deals with creativity

• There is no difference between them

The Nature vs. Nurture debate focuses on:

• The study of consciousness

• The role of biology and environment in cognitive development

• Differences between intelligence tests

• The emotional regulation process