Psychology Exam test quizzes and
answers well graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅science of behavior and mental processes
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅founder of psychology, used scientific methods to study psychological
processes (reaction times), wrote principles of physiological psychology, university of Leipzig
Edward B. Titchener - ANS✅✅structuralism (first major school of thought in psychology), cornell
university, used process of introspection, most women completed PhD’s under his direction
introspection - ANS✅✅unreliable, cannot study animals, complex topics cannot be investigated
William James - ANS✅✅functionalism, Harvard, adaptation of environmental changes, wrote
principles of psychology and talks to teachers, professor of Mary Calkins, G. Stanley Hall, and
Margaret Washburn
functionalism - ANS✅✅study of adaptive and practical functions of human behavior
Charles Darwin - ANS✅✅wrote origin of species, idea of evolution, naturalist
G. Stanley Hall - ANS✅✅student of William James, opened first psychology lab in the US, founded
APA was 1st president, 1st president of Clark University, 1st PHD in psychology, Johns Hopkins
University, American Journal of Psychology
Mary Whiton Calkins - ANS✅✅student of William James, not allowed to receive PHD from Harvard
due to rules and womens rights issues, established a lab at Wellesley College, 1st woman president
of APA, wrote introduction to psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn - ANS✅✅student of William James, first US woman to earn PHD, 2nd
female president of APA, wrote the animal mind, Cornell University
Francis C. Sumner - ANS✅✅student of G. Stanley Hall, first black to earn PHD in psychology,
Howard University
, Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅psychoanalysis: unconcious
who was Freud's biographer? - ANS✅✅Ernest Jones
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅behaviorism, overt observable behavior, learning, behavior of humans
Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅Russian, dogs association with neutral stimulus such as bell and food
triggering salivation
B.F. Skinner - ANS✅✅reinforcement and punishment with rats and pigeons
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅school of psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behaviors,
especially with learning
learning - ANS✅✅how behavior is acquired and modified in response to environmental influences
Carl Rogers - ANS✅✅humanistic psychology, emphasized self-determination, free will, and
importance of choice
Abraham Maslow - ANS✅✅humanistic psychology, theory of motivation, importance of
psychological growth
culture - ANS✅✅attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people and communicated
from one generation to another
cross-cultural psychology - ANS✅✅branch of psychology, studies effects of culture on behavior
and mental processes
ethnocentrism - ANS✅✅belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior to another,
tendency to use one's culture as a standard to judge other cultures
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅studies causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of different typs
of behavioral and emotional disorders (anxiety, eating disorders, mood)
answers well graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅science of behavior and mental processes
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅founder of psychology, used scientific methods to study psychological
processes (reaction times), wrote principles of physiological psychology, university of Leipzig
Edward B. Titchener - ANS✅✅structuralism (first major school of thought in psychology), cornell
university, used process of introspection, most women completed PhD’s under his direction
introspection - ANS✅✅unreliable, cannot study animals, complex topics cannot be investigated
William James - ANS✅✅functionalism, Harvard, adaptation of environmental changes, wrote
principles of psychology and talks to teachers, professor of Mary Calkins, G. Stanley Hall, and
Margaret Washburn
functionalism - ANS✅✅study of adaptive and practical functions of human behavior
Charles Darwin - ANS✅✅wrote origin of species, idea of evolution, naturalist
G. Stanley Hall - ANS✅✅student of William James, opened first psychology lab in the US, founded
APA was 1st president, 1st president of Clark University, 1st PHD in psychology, Johns Hopkins
University, American Journal of Psychology
Mary Whiton Calkins - ANS✅✅student of William James, not allowed to receive PHD from Harvard
due to rules and womens rights issues, established a lab at Wellesley College, 1st woman president
of APA, wrote introduction to psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn - ANS✅✅student of William James, first US woman to earn PHD, 2nd
female president of APA, wrote the animal mind, Cornell University
Francis C. Sumner - ANS✅✅student of G. Stanley Hall, first black to earn PHD in psychology,
Howard University
, Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅psychoanalysis: unconcious
who was Freud's biographer? - ANS✅✅Ernest Jones
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅behaviorism, overt observable behavior, learning, behavior of humans
Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅Russian, dogs association with neutral stimulus such as bell and food
triggering salivation
B.F. Skinner - ANS✅✅reinforcement and punishment with rats and pigeons
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅school of psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behaviors,
especially with learning
learning - ANS✅✅how behavior is acquired and modified in response to environmental influences
Carl Rogers - ANS✅✅humanistic psychology, emphasized self-determination, free will, and
importance of choice
Abraham Maslow - ANS✅✅humanistic psychology, theory of motivation, importance of
psychological growth
culture - ANS✅✅attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people and communicated
from one generation to another
cross-cultural psychology - ANS✅✅branch of psychology, studies effects of culture on behavior
and mental processes
ethnocentrism - ANS✅✅belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior to another,
tendency to use one's culture as a standard to judge other cultures
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅studies causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of different typs
of behavioral and emotional disorders (anxiety, eating disorders, mood)
