Psychology exam test queries and
answers graded A+
What are the roots of psychology? - ANS✅✅philosophy and physiology
How did the philosophies of Descartes and Locke prepare the way for psychology? -
ANS✅✅Descartes started with the belief of evidence and locked emphasized that knowledge
comes through experience and science should dependent on experience and observation.
What is empiricism? - ANS✅✅the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries,
expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
How did Charles Darwin and Gustav Fechner influence the emergence of psychology? -
ANS✅✅They began experimental psychology
Who is the founder of psychology? When and where did psychology begin? - ANS✅✅Wilhelm
Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in
1879.
What is structuralism? - ANS✅✅a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human
cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between
elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
What is introspection? - ANS✅✅the examination or observation of one's own mental and
emotional processes.
Who is Edward Titchner? - ANS✅✅founder of strucualism
What is functionalism? - ANS✅✅emphasizes on the usefulness of psychology.
Who is William James? - ANS✅✅founder of functionalism
answers graded A+
What are the roots of psychology? - ANS✅✅philosophy and physiology
How did the philosophies of Descartes and Locke prepare the way for psychology? -
ANS✅✅Descartes started with the belief of evidence and locked emphasized that knowledge
comes through experience and science should dependent on experience and observation.
What is empiricism? - ANS✅✅the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries,
expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
How did Charles Darwin and Gustav Fechner influence the emergence of psychology? -
ANS✅✅They began experimental psychology
Who is the founder of psychology? When and where did psychology begin? - ANS✅✅Wilhelm
Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in
1879.
What is structuralism? - ANS✅✅a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human
cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between
elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
What is introspection? - ANS✅✅the examination or observation of one's own mental and
emotional processes.
Who is Edward Titchner? - ANS✅✅founder of strucualism
What is functionalism? - ANS✅✅emphasizes on the usefulness of psychology.
Who is William James? - ANS✅✅founder of functionalism
