Terminology
This term refers to the systematic study of behavior and experience.
Psychology
Who was deemed as the "Father of Behaviorism"
John B. Watson
True or False: There are four major philosophical issues in Psychology.
False: There are three.
True or False: Psychologists are M.D.s while Psychiatrists are PhDs and PsyDs.
False
Fill-in-the-blank: Sigmund Freud's "The ______________ of Dreams
Interpretation
The psychological term for awareness.
Conscious(ness)
Who is credited with setting up the first known psychological laboratory in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
What are the two views of the mind-brain problem?
Monism and Dualism
In what year did Pavlov discover Classical Conditioning?
1910
What year was the first practice IQ test introduced?
1905
This psychological term simply means "Thinking" or "Thought"
Cognition
Who is credited with campaigning for better treatment of the mentally ill during the mid 1800s?
Dorothea Dix
Which philosophical issue asks the question of how differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment?
Nature versus Nurture
In what year was the first psychology laboratory established?
1879
In what year did B. F. Skinner introduce Operant Conditioning?
1938
This term/phrase refers to the belief that behavior is caused by a person’s independent decisions.
Free Will
Who is recognized as the founder of American psychology? Also wrote The Principles of Psychology in 1890.
William James
This is the view that the mind is separate from the brain but somehow controls the brain and therefore the rest of the body.
Dualism
Which psychologist introduced the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
Name the concept introduced by Wilhelm Wundt which requires looking into oneself.
Introspection
Which term refers to the idea that everything that happens has a cause, or determinant, that someone could observe or measure?
Determinism
Who was the first known female president of the American Psychological Association (APA)?
Mary Calkins
Which argument explains the belief of a law efforcing society that people are accountable for their own behavior?
Free Will (vs. Determinism)
What was the landmark case that argued against and essentially ended segregation in schools based on research from psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark?
Brown versus Board of Education
Fill-in-the-Blank: Due to many soldiers of World War II wanting help in dealing with the traumas caused by their war experiences, _____________ could not keep up with the need; thus, _____________ began providing therapy
psychiatrists; psychologists