P SYC 101 | GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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In 1879, in psychology's first experiment, ___ and his students measured the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and pressing a key - ANSWER William Wundt William James would be considered a(n) - ANSWER Functionalist Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener would be considered - ANSWER Structuralists In the early twentieth century, ____ redefined psychology as the "science of observable behavior" - ANSWER Abraham Maslow Nature is to nurture as - ANSWER Biology is to experience A psychologist treating emotionally troubled adolescents at a local mental health agency is most likely a - ANSWER Clinical Psychologist 1 / 3
A mental health professional with a medical degree who can prescribe medication is a - ANSWER Psychiatrist A psychologist conducting basic research to expand psychology's knowledge base would be most likely to - ANSWER observe 3- and 6- year olds solving puzzles and analyze differences in their abilities used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind - ANSWER Structuralism Explored how mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish - ANSWER Functionalism Who was a memory researcher, but denied her PhD in 1890? - ANSWER Mary Calkins 1st women with psych in PhD and studied animal behavior? - ANSWER Margaret Floy Washburn 2 / 3
Who emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior? - ANSWER Frued What did behaviorism dismiss? - ANSWER Introspection Watson and Rayner showed that fear could be learned. What theory did they belong to? - ANSWER Behaviorism BF skinner agued that consequences shape - ANSWER Behavior Historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential -- rejected behaviorism and Freudian definition of psych - ANSWER Humanistic Psychology Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) - ANSWER Cognitive Neuroscience Who drew attention to ways that the environmental influences can nurture/limit growth potential? - ANSWER Roger and Maslow
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