Exam 1: Section 2: Psychology: Evolution of a Science

After suffering a stroke, Lisa was able to understand what people said to her but was unable to speak to them. The stroke probably damaged her:

Who conditioned a fear of a harmless white rat in "Little Albert"?

_____ developed a "field theory" that viewed social behavior as governed by forces both internal and external to the individual.

_____ is described as the scientific study of objectively observable behavior.

The French physician Paul Broca discovered a brain region that was associated with the:

Studies have demonstrated that we attend to only a fraction of the sensory information that the brain receives. Based on this information, William James would be MOST interested in which research question?

Wundt believed that scientific psychology should focus on analyzing the basic elements comprising consciousness, an approach he called:

Some early philosophers believed that certain kinds of knowledge were innate or inborn, a theory known as:

In which year did the first woman become president of the American Psychological Association?

A cognitive psychologist who argued that it wasn't an environmental stimulus, but rather the subjective experience-or construal-of the stimulus that led to behavior, was:

Which statement about John Watson is correct?

Compared to the typical APA member in 1910, the typical APA member in 2010 is more likely to be all of these EXCEPT a(n):

After conducting repeated experiments in which he first trained rats to navigate a maze and then removed tiny sections of their brains to see if that brain region eliminated learning, Lashley reported that:

Who opened the first psychological laboratory in North America?

In the 1950s, the advent of computers had an enormous influence on how psychologists conceptualized the mind. In this conceptualization, the mind was analogous to:

Hermann von Helmholtz is most remembered for:

Dr. Aguilera studies the influence of peer pressure on adolescents. Which area of psychology does her research BEST represent?

Errors of perception, memory, or judgment in which subjective experience differs from objective reality are called:

The psychological approach that emphasizes that the mind is a collection of specialized components that are designed to overcome problems that our ancestors faced over millions of years is:

_____ believed that the mind and body are different from each other, and linked by the pineal gland.