Psychology Exam 1 Multiple Choice (All Correct Answers)

Psychology is the study of a.) mental illness b.) the brain c.) behavior and mental processes d.) observable behavior in humans and animals Correct Answers C The followers of ____________ argue that there is a close relationship between animal behavior and human behavior. a.) Jean Jacques Rousseau b.) Charles Darwin c.) John Locke d.) Rene Descartes Correct Answers B The year 1879 might be thought of as the beginning of psychology as a science because that is the year: a.) Margaret Floy Washburn wrote "The Animal Mind" b.) G. Stanley Hall established the first clinic for handicapped children c.) Wilhelm Wundt developed and opened the first psychology laboratory d.) Sigmund Freud discovered the role of the unconscious mind in determining behavior Correct Answers C ______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for underlying causes and practical consequences of these behaviors and processes. a.) Rationalists b.) Structuralists c.) Fundamentalists d.) Functionalists Correct Answers D John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and BF Skinner would have agreed that psychology is the study of: a.) behavior b.) the mind c.) conscious experience d.) mental processes Correct Answers A