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WorksheetsPsychology History
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The earliest history of psychology can be traced back to the time of the early ___________.
Greeks
Romans
English
Americans
____________ treated psychology as a sub-branch of natural philosophy because he regarded the soul as the basic principle of life.
Rene Descartes
Aristotle
William James
Ivan Pavlov
Rene Descartes introduced the idea of _______________.
Introspection
Behaviorism
Dualism
Structuralism
This theory asserted that the mind and body were two entities that interact to form the human experience. What is the theory?
Humanism
Functionalism
Psuchê
Dualism
A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
Structuralist
Functionalist
Behaviorist
Cognitivist
What is introspection?
A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
A method of studying the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness
A method of analyzing how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment
A method of studying how we process, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior
Which Psychologist perceived psychology as the study of human consciousness and sought to apply experimental methods to studying internal mental processes?
William James
Wilhelm Wundt
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Which psychologist opened the world's first psychology lab in 1878?
Wilhelm Wundt
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
A psychologist who studied the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness. They study how animals and people adapt to their environments.
Structuralist
Behavioralist
Functionalist
Humanist
Who is known as the father of American psychology?
William James
Abraham Maslow
Jean Piaget
William James
This psychologist changed the face of psychology by proposing a theory of personality that emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Maslow
Albert Einstein
William James
A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events or the environment
Functionalist
Humanist
Cognitivist
Behaviorist
This psychologist discovered classical conditioning by conducting an experiment with dogs, thus proposed that behaviors could be learned via conditioned associations
Abraham Maslow
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Sigmund Freud
A psychologist who believes that each person had freedom in directing his/her future and achieving personal growth
Humanist
Cognitivist
Behaviorist
Functionalist
A psychologist who studies how we process, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior
Humanist
Cognitivist
Behaviorist
Functionalist
American psychologist who developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivation
Ivan Pavlov
Abraham Maslow
Jean Piaget
Rene Descartes
What is displayed in the image?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Food Pyramid
Personal Growth Stages
Psychology Plan
This psychologist is most famously known for his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood
Wilhelm Wundt
Wiliam James
Abraham Maslow
Jean Piaget
Psychology started as a "science of mental life" and is known today as a "__________________________"
"science of mental health"
"science of the working brain"
"science of behavior and mental processes"
"science of observable behavior"
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.
True
False
