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WorksheetsAP Psych Unit 1 History & Approaches (1)
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who would be the most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior?
a)
Ivan Pavlov
b)
Carl Rogers
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William James
2.
John Locke came up with “Tabula Rasa” that helped form empiricism, what does “Tabula Rasa” mean?
a)
Blank slate
b)
Structuralism
c)
Thoughtful mind
d)
Mental process
3.
Who established the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany?
a)
G. Stanley Hall
b)
William Wundt
c)
Francis Bacon
d)
Sigmund Freund
4.
Who usually has a PhD, PsyD, EdD and cannot prescribe medication?
a)
Psychiatrist
b)
Therapist
c)
Physical therapist
d)
Psychologist
5.
What is cognitive psychology?
a)
Perceive, process and remember information through scientific processes
b)
Focus on biological structures and process
c)
Focus on the conscious experiences and choices in our lives
d)
How the natural selection of traits prompted survival of genes
6.
Who influenced functionalism through their work on natural selection?
a)
Margaret Washburn
b)
Mary Calkins
c)
Edward Titchener
d)
Charles Darwin
7.
What two men asked the question “how can the environment nurture human growth”?
a)
Sigmund Freud and John Locke
b)
Francis Bacon and Aristotle
c)
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
d)
John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner
8.
What did the huministic psychologists disagree with?
a)
Freudian & Behavioral
b)
Behavioral & cognative
c)
cognative & social cultural
d)
freudian & evolutionary
9.
What is the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method?
a)
experimental psychology
b)
behaviorism
c)
humanistic psychology
d)
structuralism
10.
Who is the “father” of psychology?
a)
John Locke
b)
John B. Watson
c)
William Wundt
d)
Rene Descartes
11.
Which psychologist rejected introspection?
a)
Sigmund Freund
b)
B.F. Skinner
c)
William James
d)
Edward Titchener
12.
The science of behavior and mental processes is ________
a)
Cognitive neuroscience
b)
behaviorism
c)
psychology
d)
structuralism
13.
Which of the 7 approaches would be used to look at a child's experiences and how they affected them today?
a)
Biology
b)
Psychoanalytic
c)
Behaviorism
d)
Cognitive
14.
Who was teh person that focused on humanistic psychology?
a)
Sigmund Freud
b)
John B. Watson
c)
B.F. Skinner
d)
Carl Rogers
15.
What is the term that goes with "blank slate"?
a)
Tabula rasa
b)
Structuralism
c)
Intuition
d)
Functionalism
16.
A psychologist wants to see if the kids around town have been influencing Billy. Which approach should be used?
a)
Behaviorism
b)
Biology
c)
Socio-Cultural
d)
Humanism
17.
Which prescientific psychologist thought that the fluid inside the spinal cavity was animal spirits?
a)
Socrates
b)
Descartes
c)
Aristotle
d)
Plato
18.
In most states what is the big difference between psychiatrist and psychologist?
a)
Psychologists are liscensed to give medicine
b)
Psychiatrist has no medical training
c)
Psychiatrist can prescibe medication
d)
Pshychologist only work with humans
19.
Who studied and realized that at birth your mind is a Tabula Rosa?
a)
William Wundt
b)
Fransis Bacon
c)
John Locke
d)
Rene Descartes
20.
What are some applied research positions?
a)
Psychometrics
b)
Counseling
c)
Educational
d)
Social
21.
Which one is not a focus learning through behavioral perspective?
a)
Rewards
b)
Unconscious
c)
Punishment
d)
Observations
22.
What is the study of the soul and mind?
a)
Psyche
b)
Behaviorist
c)
Logia
d)
Mental processes
23.
Who in Psychology made a lead way in helping psychological disorder treatment?
a)
Dorthea Dix
b)
Jean Piaget
c)
Abraham Maslow
d)
Carl Rogers
24.
What is the study of knowledge of or study of behavior and mental processes?
a)
Human Psychology
b)
Psychology
c)
Behaviorist
d)
Mental Processes
25.
Who used introspection to study structures of mind?
a)
William James
b)
B.F. Skinner
c)
John B Watson
d)
Edward Titchener
26.
What us the definition of evolutionary psychology?
a)
Focus on learning through rewards, punishments, and observatins
b)
How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival genes
c)
Examines our thought processes, how we solve problems, make decisions and develop language
d)
Interactions we have with enviornment and other people in the environment
27.
When was the birth of psychology as we know it in a small room of Germany's University of Leipzig?
a)
March 1403
b)
July 1746
c)
July 1820
d)
December 1879
28.
Which philosopher suggested the idea that the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes?
a)
Charles Darwin
b)
Ivan Pavlov
c)
John Locke
d)
Jean Piaget
29.
Which of the following groups changed the definition of Psychology to "the scientific study of observable behavior"?
a)
Humanists
b)
Psychodynamic psychologists
c)
Cognitive psychologists
d)
Behaviorists
30.
What scientist is considered one of the founders of modern science?
a)
Francis Bacon
b)
Rene Descartes
c)
John Locke
d)
Wilhelm Wundt
31.
Who was denied the claim to being psychology's first female psychology Ph.D.?
a)
Rene Descartes
b)
Mary Whiton Calkins
c)
Rosalie Rayner
d)
Margaret Floy Washburn
32.
What is intuition?
a)
Knowing if something is right or wrong
b)
Tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that one would have foreseen it
c)
The human brain trying to find order or patterns in everything
d)
Thinking you know more than you do
33.
Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?
a)
John Watson
b)
William James
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
Max Wertheimer
34.
Which best describes a mode?
a)
Most frequent occurring score
b)
The middle score in a set of data
c)
The average of a distribution of scores
d)
Used to organize data
35.
Which of the following deals with childhood memories and events?
a)
Cognitive
b)
Behaviorism
c)
Humanism
d)
Psychodynamic
36.
What best describes a mean?
a)
Most frequent occurring score
b)
The middle score in a set of data
c)
The average of a distribution of scores
d)
Used to organize data
37.
Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist?
a)
Abraham Maslow
b)
John Watson
c)
William James
d)
Sigmund Freud
38.
What best describes a median?
a)
Most frequent occurring score
b)
The middle score in a set of data
c)
The average of a distribution of scores
d)
Used to organize data
39.
If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with the:
a)
Behavior Approach
b)
Psychoanalytic Approach
c)
Humanistic Approach
d)
Biological Approach
40.
Who was considered the father of psychology?
a)
James
b)
Wundt
c)
Wertheimer
d)
Freud
41.
What is the meaning of replicate?
a)
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures
b)
A testable prediction
c)
A self-correcting process for evaluating ideas with observations and predicts behaviors or events
d)
A recreating of the study with other participants in different situations to prove the feelings to be reliable
42.
Who was the first woman to recieve a psychology Ph.D.?
a)
Mary Calkins
b)
Francisca Bacon
c)
Margaret Floy Washburn
d)
Rosalie Rayner
43.
What do personality psychologists "investigate"?
a)
How we view and effect one another
b)
How we percieve, think, and solve problems
c)
How we view and affect one another
d)
Our persistant traits
44.
What type of psychologists promote psychological health in individuals, groups, and organizations?
a)
Clinical
b)
Sport
c)
School
d)
Counseling
45.
The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called
a)
Introspection
b)
Structuralism
c)
Naturalistic Observation
d)
Scientific
46.
The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study?
a)
Applied research
b)
Philosophy
c)
Basic research
d)
Psychology
47.
What is the sceintific study that aims to solve practical problems?
a)
Human Factors Psychology
b)
Applied research
c)
Developmental Psychology
d)
Testing Effect
48.
What is the definition of psychology?
a)
Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
b)
Study of behavior and logic
c)
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
d)
Study of how how our influences affect us
49.
what is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
a)
a psychologist can diagnose someone, a psychiatrist can t
b)
a psychologist can write prescriptions, a psychiatrist cant
c)
a psychiatrist has a Ph.D, a psychologist went to medical school
d)
a psychiatrist went to medical school, a psychologist has a Ph. D
50.
which approach focuses on concious experiences and choosing to take control of our lives and our destiny
a)
social- cultural approach
b)
humanistic approach
c)
behavioral approach
d)
psychodinamic approach
51.
which is not a mental process
a)
eating
b)
sensations
c)
thoughts
d)
feelings
52.
which two people both believed that the mind is seperable from the body especially in death and knowlegde is innate?
a)
socrates and aristotle
b)
plato and aristotle
c)
socrates and plato
d)
descartes and plato
53.
which of the following is not an applied research position?
a)
social psychologist
b)
forensic psychologist
c)
school psychologist
d)
industrial psychologist
54.
What approach focuses on childhood memories and events of the unconscious mind?
a)
Psychoanalitic
b)
cognitive
c)
behaviorism
d)
humanism
55.
“How can we achieve full potential?” What approach is being represented here?
a)
humanism
b)
behaviorism
c)
biological
d)
evolutionary
56.
What does cognitive thinking focus on?
a)
thoughts and decisions
b)
biological structures
c)
rewards and punishments
d)
natural selection
57.
Putting up your middle finger as an example of a learned behavior is an example of what approach?
a)
Biological
b)
cognitive
c)
behaviorism
d)
socio-cultural
58.
Hormones, heredity, tumors, and disease all fall into the category of what approach?
a)
Biological
b)
cognitive
c)
humanism
d)
evolutionary
59.
What did Socrates and Plato think psychology was?
a)
Mind is separable from body and especially in death and knowledge is born in us.
b)
Knowledge is from experiences and is stored in memories
c)
Person learns from the influences around us
d)
Memories formed as experiences opened pores in the brain
60.
What did psychologist thought fluid in spinal cavities is animal spirits?
a)
Socrates
b)
Rene Descartes
c)
Francis Bacon
d)
John Locke
61.
Who is the father of Psychology?
a)
William Wundt
b)
Francis Bacon
c)
John Locke
d)
Aristotle
62.
Which Psychologist questioned how does our early childhood experiences affect our behavior?
a)
William James
b)
Sigmund Freud
c)
John B. Watson
d)
Abraham Maslow
63.
Who believed in Tabula Rosa?
a)
Plato
b)
William Wundt
c)
John Locke
d)
Sigmund Freud
64.
What approach focuses on how childhood memories and events and the unconscious mind that affects behavior?
a)
Psychoanalitic
b)
Cognitive
c)
Humanism
d)
socio-cultural
65.
Who is the father of psychology?
a)
William Wundt
b)
Carl Rogers
c)
B.F Skinner
d)
Francis Bacon
66.
Who believed psych was an observable behavior?
a)
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
b)
John B. Watson and B.F Skinner
c)
William James
d)
Edward Titchener
67.
What does humanism focus on?
a)
Behavior in terms of conditioning
b)
Mental activities associated with thinking
c)
Behavior related to the traits that have been passed down
d)
Human behavior through the eyes of the observer and person, growth and potential
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