Margaret floy washburn - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Psychology SLO Test What psychologist was considered a trait psychologist and developed 16 PF - Raymond cattell Perspective that viewed the human condition as a mixture of unconscious desires and conflicts - Psychoanalytic perspective Who is considered the founder of humanistic perspective? - Abraham maslow Who believed that dream analysis could be performed to get a better sense of someone's unconscious desires and conflicts - Sigmund Freud Someone who believes in their abili...

# of people with a BA in psych - Answer-3.4 million # of people with a Ph D or Psy D in psych - Answer-207,000 # of divisions in the APA - Answer-56 3 elements that define science - Answer-systematic empiricism, production of public knowledge, examination of solvable problems systematic empiricism - Answer-structured observation which is theory driven and used to test hypotheses production of public knowledge - Answer-scientific findings are submitted to the scientific community for scru...

Definition of psychology - correct answer The science of behavior and mental processes John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner Subject matter of psychology - correct answer Observable behavior Mental processes/Mental events Animal Behavior Creation of psychology (when and who) - correct answer 1879 William Wundt Structuralism - correct answer Founded by Titchener Attempted to discover the structural elements of the mind Used introspection Functionalism - correct answer Founded by Jame...

Psychology Test Questions with Correct Answers Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of A) animal intelligence. B) personality development. C) learning and memory. D) reactions to sensory stimulation. - ANSWER D Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images. A) John Watson B) Charles Darwin C) Edward Titchener D) B. F. Skinner - ANSWER C William James...

What are the 2 major roots in psychology? correct answers philosophy and physiology/medicine What is the science of behavior and mental processes? correct answers Psychology - Any action that can be observed and recorded - Anything a human or nonhuman animal does correct answers Behavior - Internal states that are inferred from behavior - Thoughts, beliefs, and feelings correct answers Mental Processes - Established the first psychology lab in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany - Studied co...

Psychology The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes Socrates and Plato thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes on after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate. Aristotle student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through experiences Rene Descartes thought the mind and body were separate John Locke thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form empiricism empiricism knowledge is from experiences and therefor scien...

Psychology unit 1John Locke - correct answer the mind is a 'blank slate' at birth and we are formed and develop from our own experiences with the environment. Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer Father of experimental psychology Leipzig, Germany (1879) - correct answer world's first experimental psychology lab Edward Bradford Titchener - correct answer Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. Structuralism -...

Psychology is the study of a.) mental illness b.) the brain c.) behavior and mental processes d.) observable behavior in humans and animals - C The followers of ____________ argue that there is a close relationship between animal behavior and human behavior. a.) Jean Jacques Rousseau b.) Charles Darwin c.) John Locke d.) Rene Descartes - B The year 1879 might be thought of as the beginning of psychology as a science because that is the year: a.) Margaret Floy Washburn wrote "Th...

psych 2 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Aristotle theorized about - Correct Answer learning about and memory, motivationg and emotion, perception and personality Wilhelm Wundt - Correct Answer began first psychological lab. "atoms of the mind" - the fastest and simplest mental process Edward Bradford Titchener - Correct Answer used introspection to search for the mind's structural element, wanted to discover mind's structure so he engaged people in self-reflective introspecti...

Psychology is the study of a.) mental illness b.) the brain c.) behavior and mental processes d.) observable behavior in humans and animals C The followers of ____________ argue that there is a close relationship between animal behavior and human behavior. a.) Jean Jacques Rousseau b.) Charles Darwin c.) John Locke d.) Rene Descartes B The year 1879 might be thought of as the beginning of psychology as a science because that is the year: a.) Margaret Floy Washburn wrote "The Anim...