TEST BANK FOR PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, 8TH EDITION, WAYNE WEITEN

Chapter 1 A--The Evolution of Psychology Student: 1. Psychology's intellectual parents are the disciplines of A. physics and physiology. B. philosophy and physiology. C. chemistry and physics. D. philosophy and chemistry. 2. The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject ma is A. G. Stanley Hall. B. René Descartes. C. William James. D. Wilhelm Wundt. 3. According to historians, the "birth" of psychology occurred in A. 1859 in England. B. 1879 in Germany. C. 1883 in the United States. D. 1909 in the United States. 4. The notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of conscious experience is MOST closely linked with A. William James. B. Wilhelm Wundt. C. Sigmund Freud. D. John B. Watson. 5. According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of psychology was on the scientific study of A. observable behavior. B. conscious experience. C. unconscious motivation. D. the functions of behavior.