Chapter 1 Quiz

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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


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