a. Watson
b. Titchener
c. James
d. Wundt
Answer a % correct 63 a= 63 b= 8 c= 15 d= 13 r = .50
11. Wertheimer was associated with the ________ school.
a. functionalist
b. psychoanalytic
c. Gestalt
d. behaviorist
Answer c % correct 66 a= 9 b= 13 c= 66 d= 11 r = .43
12. Freud believed that many unconscious desires are:
a. the result of excessive punishment.
b. by-products of introspection.
c. the result of excessive reinforcement.
d. sexual in nature.
Answer d % correct 79 a= 1 b= 8 c= 12 d= 79 r = .48
13. The psychological school that asks, "What are mental processes for?" rather than "What are mental processes?" is which of the following?
a. structuralism
b. functionalism
c. humanism
d. Gestalt
Answer b % correct 76 a= 13 b= 76 c= 2 d= 10 r = .48
14. The psychologist John Watson is associated with the ________ school of psychology and argued that psychology must concern itself only with ________.
a. behavioral; behavior
b. behavioral; mental processes
c. cognitive; thought and action
d. cognitive; behavior
Answer a % correct 72 a= 72 b= 15 c= 11 d= 3 r = .33
15. Which of the following does NOT fit with the other three?
a. Wundt
b. 1879
c. functionalism
d. introspection
Answer c % correct 55 a= 8 b= 4 c= 55 d= 33 r = .26
16. Studying the elements of sensations, feelings, and images is most directly associated with which school of psychology?
a. structuralism
b. functionalism
c. behaviorism
d. humanism
Answer a % correct 64 a= 64 b= 14 c= 12 d= 10 r = .52
17. The founder of behaviorism is
a. James.
b. Skinner.
c. Watson.
d. Wundt.
Answer c % correct 77 a= 2 b= 15 c= 77 d= 5 r = .41
18. Psychology is said to have begun when
a. medicine was seen to be ineffective in treating neurosis.
b. Wilhelm Wundt started the first psychological laboratory .
c. Sigmund Freud opened his private practice in Vienna.
d. it was discovered in the early 1900s that many illnesses have no medical.
Answer b % correct 74 a= 8 b= 74 c= 3 d= 15 r = .28
19. Scientific psychology is formally recognized to have begun:
a. in Greece, with the work of Hippocrates.
b. in the United States, with the work of James.
c. in Austria, with the work of Freud.
d. in Germany, with the work of Wundt.
Answer d % correct 90 a= 2 b= 3 c= 5 d= 90 r = .30
20. The first psychology laboratory was opened by ________.
a. Wundt
b. James
c. Titchener
d. Watson
Answer a % correct 95 a= 95 b= 2 c= 2 d= 1 r = .20
21. Skinner is associated with ________.
a. structuralism
b. behaviorism
c. Gestalt psychology
d. existentialism
Answer b % correct 78 a= 7 b= 78 c= 14 d= 1 r = .20
22. For Freud, much of our behavior is controlled by ________.
a. unconscious desires
b. environmental stimuli
c. mental Gestalts
d. mental associations
Answer a % correct 90 a= 90 b= 7 c= 1 d= 2 r = .27
23. The school of thought that became known as behaviorism was founded by ________.
a. Watson
b. Titchener
c. James
d. Wundt
Answer a % correct 53 a= 53 b= 11 c= 17 d= 17 r = .40