Week 1

Question 1

Cognitive psychology

Answer 1

The study of mental processes.

Question 2

Cognitive psychology

Answer 2

The study of mental processes.

Question 3

Empiricism

Answer 3

The belief that knowledge comes from experience.

Question 4

Eugenics

Answer 4

The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.

Question 5

Flashbulb memory

Answer 5

A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.

Question 6

Functionalism

Answer 6

A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.

Question 7

Gestalt psychology

Answer 7

An attempt to study the unity of experience.

Question 8

Individual differences

Answer 8

Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.

Question 9

Introspection

Answer 9

A method of focusing on internal processes.

Question 10

Neural impulse

Answer 10

An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.

Question 11

Practitioner-Scholar Model

Answer 11

A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.

Question 12

Psychophysics

Answer 12

Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.

Question 13

Realism

Answer 13

A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.

Question 14

Scientist-practitioner model

Answer 14

A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.

Question 15

Structuralism

Answer 15

A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.

Question 16

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Answer 16

The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.

Question 17

Wundt added a laboratory experience to his experimental psychology lectures.

Answer 17

What event, in 1879, established psychology as a science?

Question 18

James, Hall, and Cattell were part of a group that embraced ______ Blank and was influenced by evolutionary theory.

Answer 18

functionalism

Question 19

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 19

Who founded the American Psychological Association in 1892?

Question 20

1900

Answer 20

By the year , there were more than 40 experimental psychology laboratories in the US and Canada.

Question 21

His students gave self-reports of their reactions to stimuli.

Answer 21

How did Wundt study consciousness?

Question 22

Ivan Pavlov advanced behaviorism by showing that behavior could be explained without reference to ______ Blank and was instead controlled by events in the environment.

Answer 22

the mind

Question 23

the founder of clinical and school psychology

Answer 23

Who was Lightner Witmer?

Question 24

the idea that all knowledge comes from experience

Answer 24

empiricism

Question 25

She was the first woman to get a PhD in psychology in the US.

Answer 25

Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?

Question 26

the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology

Answer 26

Who was Francis Cecil Sumner?

Question 27

7

Answer 27

George Miller’s highly cited 1956 paper about working memory is called “The Magic Number ______ Blank , Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information”.

Question 28

It helped change attitudes about homosexuality.

Answer 28

What did Hooker’s research help to accomplish?

Question 29

observable behavior

Answer 29

Behaviorism considers ______ Blank to be the proper subject matter of psychology.

Question 30

Consciousness cannot be reduced to its component parts.

Answer 30

What claim did William James make about consciousness in the book Principles of Psychology?

Question 31

Emotion does not influence women’s decision-making more than men’s

Answer 31

What did Woolley’s research on sex differences in emotions find?

Question 32

to identify schoolchildren in need of additional help

Answer 32

Why did Alfred Binet develop modern intelligence tests?

Question 33

It harmed the self-esteem of African American children.

Answer 33

What did the research conducted by Clark and Clark show about segregation?

Question 34

Some women participated, but faced many barriers.

Answer 34

What was the role of women in research psychology in the US in the first half of the 1900s?

Question 35

Germany

Answer 35

In which country was modern psychology developed?

Question 36

The saying the “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” represents to philosophy of ______ Blank psychology.

Answer 36

Gestalt