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WorksheetsHistory and Perspectives
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which perspective thinks the unconscious mind influences everything we do?
Biological
Behavioral
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
If a child is behaving poorly, it is likely because this behavior has been rewarded somehow.
Sociocultural
Behavioral
Biological
Psychodynamic
Which perspective would say that anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences?
Psychodynamic
Cognitive
Behavioral
Biological
Which perspective would say that our behavior is a direct result of how we feel about ourselves?
Humanistic
Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Sociocultural
Which perspective suggests that an imbalance of hormones can contribute to aggressive behavior?
Biological
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Cognitive
Which perspective believes that fears are learned and can be unlearned?
Behavioral
Sociocultural
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Which perspective would agree with the following: "Change your thoughts, change your life"?
Behavioral
Cognitive
Biological
Psychodynamic
Which perspective includes perception, attention, thinking, language, and memory?
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
Psychodynamic
Which perspective would agree that eating disorders are more prevalent in the West because people are constantly bombarded with images of thin, perfect bodies.
Sociocultural
Behavioral
Biological
Psychodynamic
What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?
Introspection
Structuralism
Functionalism
Empricism
Although structuralism was short-lived, this approach made what important contribution to the science of psychology?
It highlighted why different scientific methods are needed to study children and animals versus studying adult humans
It established a model for the scientific study of mental processes
It explained why individual experience stimuli differently
It showed how separate thoughts combine to form an idea
What early perspective did not care about the "parts" of the mind but rather how the mind adapts to what we need to survive?
Introspection
Structuralism
Functionalism
Empiricism
What famous psychologist is credited with opening the first ever psychology laboratory?
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
John Watson
B. F. Skinner
Which of the following schools of thought examines a person's total experience?
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Gestalt Psychology
Introspection
How did stone age humans get rid pf their "evil spirits?"
Meditation
Screamed at them
Prayed
Trephination
