Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Structuralism is to __________ as functionalism is to __________.

Because he examined Victor, "The Wild Boy of Aveyron,"this may have inspired

One important implication of the doctrine of specific nerve energies was that

Although Wundt had established psychology assuming it would study the contents of the mind, early psychologists in North America placed their research emphasis on the relationship between

Margaret Floy Washburn suggested that behaviourists such as Watson should modify their approach by

The branch of psychology that is likely to involve, among other things, the study of cognitive, physiological, and social changes that occur as people grow older is __________ psychology.

The Canadian psychologist, Donald Hebb, was part of the cognitive revolution and worked within the behaviourist perspective that dominated the mid-twentieth century.

What do the methods used by cognitive psychologists have in common with those used by behaviourists?

Briefly outline the contributions of Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Mill to the philosophical roots of psychology.

A physiological psychologist would study the impact of the __________ on behaviour whereas a behaviour analyst would study the impact of the __________ on behaviour.

By studying the essential elements of cognitive processing, Gestalt psychologists attempted to account for the unified nature of perception.

Dr. Das Gupta is part of the "cognitive revolution."Her research focuses on __________ in common with structuralists but uses __________ in common with behaviourists.

That idea that knowledge is based on inferences derived from the accumulation of past experiences was argued by

Descartes argued that

In Descartes's view the distinction between people and other aspects of the natural world was that humans possess a

What are the primary goals of psychological research?

Freud developed his theory of mind from

If your methodology as a psychologist involved asking subjects to describe their perceptual reactions to a stimulus that you had presented to them, you would be following the __________ approach to psychology.

The law of effect was formulated by

The popularity of structuralism waned in part because