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.