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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
What is Psychology? - correct-answer - The study of mind and behavior.
What is Nativism (Nature)? - correct-answer - Nativism is the theory that
knowledge is innate and inborn. Our biological endowment makes up who we are.
What is Empiricism (Nurture)? - correct-answer - Empiricism is the idea that we
gain knowledge through experience and surroundings. Our environment makes
up who we are.
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Plato - correct-answer - He believes in the philosophical view that certain kinds of
knowledge are innate and inborn (nativism/nature).
Aristotle - correct-answer - He believes in philosophical empiricism which states
that knowledge is gained through experience.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct-answer - He believes in the idea of structuralism.
Structuralism is when you analyze the brain by breaking it down to its main
components.
William James - correct-answer - He believes in the idea of functionalism.
Functionalism is when you see how someone functions or adapts to new aspects
in their environment.
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John Watson - correct-answer - He believed that psychology and the mind was not
able to be studied through scientific inquiry. Instead, he was a behaviorist who
focused more so the actions of humans to explain their train of thought.
B.F. Skinner - correct-answer - He was another behaviorist that believed in
Pavlov's experiments and Watson's theories. He studied how behavior was
learned according to circumstance.
Sigmund Freud - correct-answer - He came up with psychoanalytic theory which is
very much so used today. Psychoanalysis is the study of unconscious mind and
how it affects a person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Behaviorism - correct-answer - an approach that advocates that psychologists
restrict themselves to the scientific study objectively observable behavior
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
What is Psychology? - correct-answer - The study of mind and behavior.
What is Nativism (Nature)? - correct-answer - Nativism is the theory that
knowledge is innate and inborn. Our biological endowment makes up who we are.
What is Empiricism (Nurture)? - correct-answer - Empiricism is the idea that we
gain knowledge through experience and surroundings. Our environment makes
up who we are.
,2|Page
Plato - correct-answer - He believes in the philosophical view that certain kinds of
knowledge are innate and inborn (nativism/nature).
Aristotle - correct-answer - He believes in philosophical empiricism which states
that knowledge is gained through experience.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct-answer - He believes in the idea of structuralism.
Structuralism is when you analyze the brain by breaking it down to its main
components.
William James - correct-answer - He believes in the idea of functionalism.
Functionalism is when you see how someone functions or adapts to new aspects
in their environment.
, 3|Page
John Watson - correct-answer - He believed that psychology and the mind was not
able to be studied through scientific inquiry. Instead, he was a behaviorist who
focused more so the actions of humans to explain their train of thought.
B.F. Skinner - correct-answer - He was another behaviorist that believed in
Pavlov's experiments and Watson's theories. He studied how behavior was
learned according to circumstance.
Sigmund Freud - correct-answer - He came up with psychoanalytic theory which is
very much so used today. Psychoanalysis is the study of unconscious mind and
how it affects a person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Behaviorism - correct-answer - an approach that advocates that psychologists
restrict themselves to the scientific study objectively observable behavior
