Names
Who established the first psychological lab ?
Wilhelm Wundt
__________the study of the elements of the mind
Structuralism
What was the First School of Psychology and focused on breaking down the mental processes into the most basic components?
Structuralism
The philosophical statement "Cogito, ergo sum" (in eng: I think, therefore I am) was made by_________
René Descartes
Structuralism was created by Wilhelm Wundt
False
Edward Titchener developed structuralism
Who is William James?
William James established the first experiential psychology lab and considered the "Father of American Psychology". He developed the first American school of thought - functionalism
Which school of thought was called the ‘Third Force’?
Humanistic Psychology
What is introspection?
The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes
Philosopher who believed that at birth individuals are blank and acquire knowledge through experience and leaning
John Locke
According to B.F. Skinner, private events like emotions and thoughts are also behaviors
True
German physician who tried to treat hysteria using magnets
Franz Anton Mesmer
When you go to a movie theatre and watch a film, you do not perceive each individual frame of the film. Rather, you see a continuously moving image. Which of the following describes this perceptual experience?
Phi Phenomenon
Which school of thought argued that perception a process in which the whole is more than the sum of the parts?
Gestalt Psychology
__________ a movement believed that an individual's character and abilities could be deduced from the size and shape of various bumps on the head
Phrenology
Humanistic psychology focuses on behaviors of people and how they are shaped by rewards
False
Who was the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association?
Carl Gustav Jung
__________________-is a theory of learning which states all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment through a process called conditioning
Behaviorism
Approach of psychotherapy the goal of which is to develop self-actualized, autonomous people in a cooperative and supportive environment
Humanistic Approach
What is Extirpation?
A technique for determining the function of a given part of an animal’s brain by removing or destroying it and observing the resulting behavior changes.
According to humanistic psychology, behaviorism id dehumanizing
TRUE
_________is a Gestalt Psychologist who is also considered as a founder of social psychology
Kurt Lewin
Principal of perceptual organization stated that parts that are close together in time or space appear to belong together and tend to be perceived together.
Proximity
What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
The law of effect stated that those behavioral responses that were most closely followed by a satisfying result were most likely to become established patterns and to occur again in response to the same stimulus.
_______________ study of quantitative relations between psychological events and physical events
Psychophysics
The first who applied psychoanalysis for children was Melanie Klein
False
it was Anna Freud