PYSCH Quiz 1&2
Answering the question of "how" some phenomenon can be studied is MOST closely associated with which of the following goals of science?
Measurement and description
Which of the following is NOT among the goals of scientific psychology?
Searching for absolute truths about behavior
The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter is
Wilhelm Wundt
The scientific approach assumes that
events are governed by some lawful order.
While the term psychology has existed since at least the early 1700s, psychology did not come to be considered a science until the
late 1800s.
Wundt's view that the study of psychology should be approached similarly to the study of chemistry brought psychology into the realm of
science
The _____ approach assumes that events are governed by some lawful order.
scientific
Which of the following is a major assumption of science?
Events occur in a relatively orderly or predictable manner.
According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of psychology was on the scientific study of
conscious experience.
Psychology's intellectual parents are the disciplines of
philosophy and physiology.