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WorksheetsDid Psychology
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 44mins
This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875.
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Francis Gaulton
Wolfgang Kohler
Who is credited with creating functionalism?
Sir Francis Bacon
Edward Titchener
William James
G. Stanley Hall
What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?
introspection
structuralism
functionalism
empricism
What theory states that all knowledge should be collected through the senses/observation/experimentation?
empiricism
structuralism
functionalism
introspection
Which psychologist opened the world's first psychology lab in 1879?
Wilhelm Wundt
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
Who is known as the father of American psychology?
William James
Abraham Maslow
Jean Piaget
B.F. Skinner
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"
Phrenology encouraged scientists to focus more on:
the mind
dualism
cortical localization
empiricism
How is empirical evidence gathered?
research
dualism
behaviorism
structuralism
How do we define mental processes?
functionalism
cognition
behaviorism
structuralism
What was Francis Galton interested in studying?
how our personality is developed
how heredity is inherited
the use of the scientific method
how we evolve into functional people
What was the large flaw in Galton's research?
he neglected the impact of genetics
he did not consider the impact of the environment
he did not consider the length of the study
he did not consider the number of subjects in his study
Gestalt Psychologists disagreed with Functionalists and said people should be studied:
with their genetics in mind
as a whole
as a structure of their society
with their parents
