Exploring Psychology Chapter 1

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt (Experiment)

Answer 1

• Created an Experimental apparatus
• This Apparatus measured the time lag between people’s hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key.

Question 2

Wilhelm Wundt (About him)

Answer 2

Philosopher and Physiologist

Question 3

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 3

Pioneered the study of learning, was a russian Physiologist.

Question 4

Sigmund Freud

Answer 4

Developed an Influential theory of personality, was an Austrian Physician.

Question 5

Jean Piaget

Answer 5

The last century’s most influential observer of children, was a Swiss Biologist.

Question 6

William James

Answer 6

Author of an important 1890 textbook, was an American Philosopher.

Question 7

Mary Calkins

Answer 7

Treated unfairly because she was a female, and she completed her PH.D at harvard as well as outscoring her male class mates.
She became the first female president of the American Psychological Asso

Question 8

Margaret Washburn

Answer 8

Became the first Woman to recieve a psychology Ph.D. and in 1921, the second to be elected an APA president.

Question 9

Behaviorism

Answer 9

The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science (2) that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologist today agree with (#1) but not with (#2)

Question 10

Humanistic Psychology

Answer 10

Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of health people and the individuals potential for personal growth.

Question 11

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 11

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

Question 12

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 12

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, and language)