The Science of the Mind (Chapter 1) Questions With Correct Answers 2025

The Science of the Mind (Chapter 1)
Questions With Correct Answers 2025
Mind: CORRECT ANSWERS The brain and its activities, including thought, emotion,
and behavior

Psychology: CORRECT ANSWERS The scientific study of behavior and mental
processes

Introspection: CORRECT ANSWERS Personal observation of your own thoughts,
feelings, and behavior

Philosophy: CORRECT ANSWERS The discipline that systematically examines basic
concepts including the source of knowledge

Plato tackled the question "what is the mind": CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Reason
2. Spirit
3. Appetite

Freud divided the mind into three parts: CORRECT ANSWERS 1. The id (inborn
aggressive and sexual impulses)
2. The ego (the self)
3. The superego (conscience)

Ancient Physicians Discovered: CORRECT ANSWERS The brain is the source of the
mind

Ancient Greek Philosophers: CORRECT ANSWERS Provided natural explanations

Descartes: CORRECT ANSWERS Mind/Body dualism

British Empiricists: CORRECT ANSWERS Knowledge is the result of experience

17th-18th Century Physical Scientists: CORRECT ANSWERS Discoveries about
sensation and movement show mind is physical

Von Helmholtz: CORRECT ANSWERS Studies of reaction time reinforced the idea that
the mind is physical

Wilhelm Wundt: CORRECT ANSWERS The first "psychologist"

Structuralism: CORRECT ANSWERS An approach in which the mind is broken into the
smallest elements of mental experience (Edward Titchener)