quiz #2

Question 1

Who is Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

• 1st research psychologist
• ran a lab in Leipzig
• he launched textbooks, journals, conferences, classes, etc

Question 2

what is empiricism?

Answer 2

when we are trying to understand some aspects of the world, we must go out and look at that aspect of the world

Question 3

who was considered the 1st clinical phychologist?

Answer 3

Lightner Witmer

Question 4

who was the pioneer in forensic and industrial psychology?

Answer 4

Hugo Munsterberg

Question 5

what are the 6 perspectives of psychology?

Answer 5

1. psychodynamic
2. physiological
3. behavioural
4. cognitive
5. socio-cultural
6. evolutionary

Question 6

what is behaviourism?

Answer 6

focuses on the idea that all behaviours are learned through interaction with the environment

Question 7

what is functionalism and who played a major factor in it?

Answer 7

• functionalism is a general approach that views mental life and behaviour in terms of active adaptation to environmental changes and opportunities
• William James had an idea of the stream of consciousness, the idea that consciousness is a steady and ever-changing flux

Question 8

what is psychophysics?

Answer 8

the study of the relationship between the physical properties of a stimulus and the psychological effects it evokes, 2 pioneers of this were Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner

Question 9

when was the APA founded? what was it founded for?

Answer 9

it was founded in 1892. it was founded as a forum for experimental psychologists