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WorksheetsPsychology - Intro, History, and Approaches
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental process called?
Creative Thought
Psychology
Sociology
Approaches
Which of the following is not a goal of psychology?
Describe
Predict
Explain
Eliminate
This approach to psychology focuses on how we process, store, use information and other things that are going on inside our heads.
Biological
Cognitive
Behaviorial
Psychoanalytical
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?
Biological Approach
Cognitive Approach
Humanistic Approach
Social Approach
This approach examines how the physical structure of the brain, our genes, hormones, and nervous system make us who we are.
Biological Approach
Sociobiological Approach
Humanistic Approach
Behavioral Approach
This approach emphasizes on the individual and that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future.
Behavioral Approach
Cognitive Approach
Psychoanalytical Approach
Humanistic Approach
This approach is based on the belief that childhood experiences greatly influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems.
Humanistic Approach
Psychoanalytical Approach
Behavioral Approach
Cognitive Approach
This approach analyzes how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones, depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors.
Behavioral Approach
Humanistic Approach
Cognitive Approach
Biological Approach
Who was nicknamed the "Father of Psychology"?
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
William James
Sir Francis Bacon
This psychologist in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard and created the first psychology textbook.
Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they
help people cope with challenges and crises.
conduct research.
experiment with how people perceive, think, and solve problems.
are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication.
Using the knowledge we have gained from research is also known as
Basic Science
Life Science
Applied Science
Biological Science
Cognitive refers to which kind of processes?
physical
mental
relations
spiritual
Research should always begin with a question. What you believe to be the answer to your question is called the
theory
introspection
hypothesis
application
What do you have when you have evidence to support your hypothesis in the Scientific Method?
cognition
theory
correlation
causation
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?
introspection
phrenology
structuralism
trephination
Which word do we use today that came from the Greeks that literally means "study of the mind?"
psychiatry
sociology
psychology
biology
The psychology fad of the 1700's that said you can determine a person's personality traits and characteristics was called
trephination
phrenology
introspection
functionalism
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?
eclectic
behavioral
phrenological
humanstic
