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Did Psychology

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Psychology can best be described as:
a)
scientific study of the mind
b)
scientific study of behavior
c)
study of humans and animals
d)
scientific study of the mind and behavior
2.

This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875.

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

William James

c)

Francis Gaulton

d)

Wolfgang Kohler

3.
The _____ began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings.
a)
Greeks
b)
Chinese
c)
Americans
d)
Romans
4.
The notion that the mind and body are separate and distinct.
a)
monolism
b)
dualism
c)
funtionalism
d)
structuralism 
5.
This person started the first lab for the study of psychology establishing modern psychology as a separate formal field of study. 
a)
Wilhelm Wundt
b)
William James
c)
Francis Gaulton
d)
Wolfgang Kohler
6.
A psychologist who studied how mental processes help people & animals adapt to their environment
a)
behaviorist
b)
functionalist
c)
structuralist
d)
psychoanalyst
7.
A psychologist who studied the basic elements of conscious mental experiences
a)
behaviorist
b)
functionalist
c)
structuralist
d)
psychoanalyst
8.
A psychologist who studied the actions of the conscious mind and the goals or purposes of behaviors and how people adapt to their environment
a)
structurlist
b)
functionalist
c)
dualist
d)
cognitivist
9.
In psychology. "behavior" is best defined as:
a)
anything a person says, does, or feels
b)
any action we can observe and record
c)
any action, whether observable or not
d)
anything we can infer from a person's actions
10.

Who is credited with creating functionalism?

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Edward Titchener

c)

William James

d)

G. Stanley Hall

11.

What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?

a)

introspection

b)

structuralism

c)

functionalism

d)

empricism

12.

What theory states that all knowledge should be collected through the senses/observation/experimentation?

a)

empiricism

b)

structuralism

c)

functionalism

d)

introspection

13.

Which psychologist opened the world's first psychology lab in 1879?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

Abraham Maslow

14.

Who is known as the father of American psychology?

a)

William James

b)

Abraham Maslow

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

B.F. Skinner

15.

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"

16.
The practice of examining bumps on a person's skull to determine that person's intellect ad character traits used in the mid-1800s.
a)
lobotomy
b)
trephination
c)
phrenology
d)
skull mapping
17.

Phrenology encouraged scientists to focus more on:

a)

the mind

b)

dualism

c)

cortical localization

d)

empiricism

18.

How is empirical evidence gathered?

a)

research

b)

dualism

c)

behaviorism

d)

structuralism

19.

How do we define mental processes?

a)

functionalism

b)

cognition

c)

behaviorism

d)

structuralism

20.

What was Francis Galton interested in studying?

a)

how our personality is developed

b)

how heredity is inherited

c)

the use of the scientific method

d)

how we evolve into functional people

21.

What was the large flaw in Galton's research?

a)

he neglected the impact of genetics

b)

he did not consider the impact of the environment

c)

he did not consider the length of the study

d)

he did not consider the number of subjects in his study

22.

Gestalt Psychologists disagreed with Functionalists and said people should be studied:

a)

with their genetics in mind

b)

as a whole

c)

as a structure of their society

d)

with their parents