Chapter 1 Quiz
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
According to the behaviorists, only the study of ____________ should be the emphasis of the science of psychology.
observable behavior
John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of
observable behavior
Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?
Analytic introspection
Behaviorists believe that the presentation of ____________ increases the frequency of behavior.
positive reinforcers
The founder of the first laboratory of scientific psychology was...
William Wundt
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called
cognitive psychology
Which of the following psychologists is known for research on operant conditioning?
B. F. Skinner
Who proposed that children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?
B. F. Skinner
The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?
Classical Conditioning
The first formal laboratory of psychology, where the approach of structuralism was created, was founded in which city?
Leipzig, Germany
Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by
an inborn biological program
Using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of
behaviorism
Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of
cognition
The investigation of how behavior is strengthened by presentation of positive reinforcers (e.g., food) or withdrawal of negative reinforcers (e.g., shock) is best known as
operant conditioning
Ebbinghaus's "memory" experiments were important because they
plotted functions that described the operation of the mind
