Quiz One

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

a Greek philosopher and student of Socrates who believed knowledge to be innate, or existing from birth

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

A Greek philosopher who believed knowledge is not existing from birth, but rather grows from experiences

Question 3

John Locke

Answer 3

a British philosopher who argued the mind at birth is a “tabula rasa” (a blank slate) and that knowledge comes from experience

Question 4

empiricism

Answer 4

the view that knowledge comes from experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

Question 5

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 5

a German who established the first psychological laboratory in 1879

Question 6

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 6

an American psychologist who established psychology’s first research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association

Question 7

Edward Bradford Titchener

Answer 7

a student of Wundt’s who helped develop structuralism and used introspection

Question 8

Structuralism

Answer 8

an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind

Question 9

introspection

Answer 9

the process if looking inward in an attempt to directly observe one’s own psychological processes

Question 10

functionalism

Answer 10

an early school of psychology countering structuralism that focused on how our minds and behaviors enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish