Psychology Exam 1

The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is knows as?

Ethnocentrism

Wilhelm Wundt defined psychology as the scientific study of?

Consciousness

The birth of psychology

1879; Wundt established the first laboratory for psychology research

In an attempt to learn something about her conscious experience, Telia looked at an abstract painting and wrote down all of her impressions as they came to her. This technique is called?

Introspection

The assertion that "psychology is empirical" means that psychology is based on?

Observation

Psychology is both the ____ that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underline it, and the ____ that applies the accumulated knowledge to practical problems.

Science; profession

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental componentes of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images, was:

Structuralism

The school of psychology which states that the task of psychology is to analyze conscious experience into its basic elements:

Structuralism

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

Wilhelm Wundt

Functionalism was founded by?

William James

In response to Wundt's pursuit of the "smallest elements of consciousness" this person objected by saying that you can't break into parts the "stream of consciousness" in which all humans participate.

William James