[AP Psychology] Chapter One - Part 1

Wundt

The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter is Wilhelm ___.

behaviorism

___ is often referred to as stimulus - response ( SR ) psychology.

humanism

___ takes the most positive view of human nature.

humanists

___ would be MOST likely to focus on individual uniqueness, freedom, and potential for growth as a person?

Skinner

___ would have been MOST likely to assert that "free will is an illusion."

Titchener

Dr. Asgaard believes that in order to fully understand complex processes (such as auditory processing), it is first necessary to understand all the separate component parts. His views are most consistent with those of ___.

adaptation

Dr. Lee is studying pain perception using a functionalist perspective. It's most likely he'd suggest we can only understand the conscious experience of pain if we first understand the role of pain in human survival and ___.

Freud

Many times people are unaware of the unconscious motivations that drive their overt actions. This view is most similar to those of Sigmund ___.

animal

The following statements BEST reflects the main advantage of conducting psychological research with animals: A researcher can exert more control over an ___ than over a human subject.

control

The major departure of Freud's position from prevailing viewpoints around the early 1900s was that he saw people as not fully aware of the forces that ___ their behavior.

Wilhelm

The notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of concious experience is MOST closely linked with ___ Wundt.

Freud

The notion that uncinscious motivations can influence our overt behavior is MOST consistent with the views of Sigmund ___.

Skinner

The psychologist who took the position that organisms tend to repeat respon ses that lead to positive outcomes and tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or negative outcomes was BF ___.

functionalism

The school of psychology associated with understanding the purpose of behavior was ___.

structuralism

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of conscious experience (sensations, feelings, images) is ___.

behaviorism

The school of psychology that was MOST responsible for the rise of animal research in psychology was ___.

stream

The term used by William James to describe a continuous flow of thoughts was a ___ of conciousness.

behaviorism

The theoretical orientation that insisted on verifiability of observation was ___.

humanism

The theoretical viewpoint that is MOST closely associated with Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow is ___.

Watson

B. F. Skinner is MOST in agreement on the issue of internal mental events with ___.

mainstream

An accurate statement about Freud's psychoanalytic theory: Many psychoanalytic concepts have filtered into the ___ of psychology.

Skinner

"Internal states undoubtedly exist, but it is not necessary to draw inferences about unobservable states in order to understand behavior." This faculty member's views are MOST similar to ___'s.

structuralism

"The focus of psychological study should be to break the conscious experience into its basic elements." School of thought: ___

conscious

According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of psychology was on the scientific study of ___ experience.

behaviorism

Although functionalism faded away as a theoretical force in psychology, historians credit it with two important contributions: behaviorism and applied psychology.

self-concepts

Humanists believe that people's behavior is governed by their ___.

introspection

In an attempt to learn something about his conscious experience, William James looked at an abstract painting and wrote down all of his impressions as they came to him. This technique is called ___.

functionalist

In order to fully understand complex processes (e.g. taste), it is necessary to understand the purpose they play in survival, not the elementary components required. This view is MOST consistent with the ___ approach to psychology.

James

It is not possible to fully understand emotions unless we understand the purpose that the conscious experiences associated with emotions play in survival and adaptation. This view is MOST consistent with those of William ___.

consciousness

John B. Watson argued that psychologists should abandon the study of ___.

better

Manny tends to be very passive and allows people to take advantage of him. A humanist would say Manny can become more assertive once he begins to feel ___ about himself and recognizes that he has the ability to fulfill his potential.

environmental

Strict behaviorists would be MOST sympathetic to the following statements? Human behavior is primarily caused by ___ factors.

Hall

THe person who established America's frst psychological research laboratory and who launched America's first psychology journal was g. Stanley ___.

functionalism

The early approach in psychology that fostered the development of modern-day applied psychology was ___.

Stanley

The first president of the American Psychological Association (APA) was G. ___ Hall.

Calkins

The first woman to serve as president of the APA was Mary ___.

1800s

While the term psychology has existed since at LEAST the early 1700s, psychology did not come to be considered a science until the late ___.

immediate

Wilhelm Wundt believed the focus of psychology should be examining people's awareness of their ___ experience.

Darwin

William James, a pioneer in the development of functionalism, was MOST heavily influenced by Charles ___.

observable

Wundt and Titchener believed that psychology should only study ___ behavior.