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Psychology History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The earliest history of psychology can be traced back to the time of the early ___________.

a)

Greeks

b)

Romans

c)

English

d)

Americans

2.

____________ treated psychology as a sub-branch of natural philosophy because he regarded the soul as the basic principle of life.

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Aristotle

c)

William James

d)

Ivan Pavlov

3.

Rene Descartes introduced the idea of _______________.

a)

Introspection

b)

Behaviorism

c)

Dualism

d)

Structuralism

4.

This theory asserted that the mind and body were two entities that interact to form the human experience. What is the theory?

a)

Humanism

b)

Functionalism

c)

Psuchê

d)

Dualism

5.

A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences

a)

Structuralist

b)

Functionalist

c)

Behaviorist

d)

Cognitivist

6.

What is introspection?

a)

A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings

b)

A method of studying the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness

c)

A method of analyzing how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment

d)

A method of studying how we process, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior

7.

Which Psychologist perceived psychology as the study of human consciousness and sought to apply experimental methods to studying internal mental processes?

a)

William James

b)

Wilhelm Wundt

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

Sigmund Freud

8.

Which psychologist opened the world's first psychology lab in 1878?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

Abraham Maslow

9.

A psychologist who studied the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness. They study how animals and people adapt to their environments.

a)

Structuralist

b)

Behavioralist

c)

Functionalist

d)

Humanist

10.

Who is known as the father of American psychology?

a)

William James

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

William James

11.

This psychologist changed the face of psychology by proposing a theory of personality that emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

William James

12.

A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment

a)

Functionalist

b)

Humanist

c)

Cognitivist

d)

Behaviorist

13.

This psychologist discovered classical conditioning by conducting an experiment with dogs, thus proposed that behaviors could be learned via conditioned associations

a)

Abraham Maslow

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

Sigmund Freud

14.

A psychologist who believes that each person had freedom in directing his/her future and achieving personal growth

a)

Humanist

b)

Cognitivist

c)

Behaviorist

d)

Functionalist

15.

A psychologist who studies how we process, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior

a)

Humanist

b)

Cognitivist

c)

Behaviorist

d)

Functionalist

16.

American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

Rene Descartes

17.

What is displayed in the image?

a)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

b)

Food Pyramid

c)

Personal Growth Stages

d)

Psychology Plan

18.

This psychologist is most famously known for his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Wiliam James

c)

Abraham Maslow

d)

Jean Piaget

19.

Psychology started as a "science of mental life" and is known today as a "__________________________"

a)

"science of mental health"

b)

"science of the working brain"

c)

"science of behavior and mental processes"

d)

"science of observable behavior"

20.

The main idea of the history of psychology is sets of questions, theories, methods, and possible answers that have been passed on and changed from generation to generation.

a)

True

b)

False