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Psychology - Intro, History, and Approaches

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental process called?

a)

Creative Thought

b)

Psychology

c)

Sociology

d)

Approaches

2.

Which of the following is not a goal of psychology?

a)

Describe

b)

Predict

c)

Explain

d)

Eliminate

3.

This approach to psychology focuses on how we process, store, use information and other things that are going on inside our heads.

a)

Biological

b)

Cognitive

c)

Behaviorial

d)

Psychoanalytical

4.

In which approach is the focus more on behavior being an effort to adapt and survive in an environment or how our behaviors are influenced by those around us?

a)

Biological Approach

b)

Cognitive Approach

c)

Humanistic Approach

d)

Social Approach

5.

This approach examines how the physical structure of the brain, our genes, hormones, and nervous system make us who we are.

a)

Biological Approach

b)

Sociobiological Approach

c)

Humanistic Approach

d)

Behavioral Approach

6.

This approach emphasizes on the individual and that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future.

a)

Behavioral Approach

b)

Cognitive Approach

c)

Psychoanalytical Approach

d)

Humanistic Approach

7.

This approach is based on the belief that childhood experiences greatly influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems.

a)

Humanistic Approach

b)

Psychoanalytical Approach

c)

Behavioral Approach

d)

Cognitive Approach

8.

This approach analyzes how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones, depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors.

a)

Behavioral Approach

b)

Humanistic Approach

c)

Cognitive Approach

d)

Biological Approach

9.

Who was nicknamed the "Father of Psychology"?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Edward Titchener

c)

William James

d)

Sir Francis Bacon

10.
The first modern psychologist who was interested in the uncounsious minds was
a)
Wilhelm Wundt
b)
Francis Galton
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
Ivan Pavlov
11.

This psychologist in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard and created the first psychology textbook. 

a)
Wilhelm Wundt
b)
William James
c)
Francis Gaulton
d)
Wolfgang Kohler
12.

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they

a)

help people cope with challenges and crises.

b)

conduct research.

c)

experiment with how people perceive, think, and solve problems.

d)

are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication.

13.

Using the knowledge we have gained from research is also known as

a)

Basic Science

b)

Life Science

c)

Applied Science

d)

Biological Science

14.

Cognitive refers to which kind of processes?

a)

physical

b)

mental

c)

relations

d)

spiritual

15.

Research should always begin with a question. What you believe to be the answer to your question is called the

a)

theory

b)

introspection

c)

hypothesis

d)

application

16.

What do you have when you have evidence to support your hypothesis in the Scientific Method?

a)

cognition

b)

theory

c)

correlation

d)

causation

17.

During the Stone Age, they would cut holes in people's heads to let the "evil spirits" leave a person so that they would have better behaviors. What was this process called?

a)

introspection

b)

phrenology

c)

structuralism

d)

trephination

18.

Which word do we use today that came from the Greeks that literally means "study of the mind?"

a)

psychiatry

b)

sociology

c)

psychology

d)

biology

19.

The psychology fad of the 1700's that said you can determine a person's personality traits and characteristics was called

a)

trephination

b)

phrenology

c)

introspection

d)

functionalism

20.

We are now in which wave of Psychology that says we pick and choose from a variety of different approaches to diagnose and treat people?

a)

eclectic

b)

behavioral

c)

phrenological

d)

humanstic