Quiz

QUIZ

1. What is another name for thinking in psychological terms?

a. Emotions b. Personality c. Behavior d. Cognition

Answer: d. Cognition is basically the same thing as thinking. Cognition involves things like orientation, thought processes, and problemsolving and can be separately assessed, apart from emotions, personality, and behavior, although each of these things are linked.

2. In the Greek language, what does “psyche” mean?

a. Mind b. Happiness c. Soul d. Thought

Answer: c. Originally, there was not a distinction between the soul and the mind. For this reason, psychology first meant the study of the soul.

3. Which field of applied psychology studies specifically the behavioral and emotional issues of the aging person?

a. Social psychology b. Geropsychology c. Developmental psychology d. Consumer psychology

Answer: b. Geropsychology focuses on the psychological issues facing the person who is aged, including issues related to cognitive, social, and emotional changes that affect the older person.

4. Who first mapped the areas of the brain as they apply to the production of speech?

a. Carl Wernicke b. Phineas Gage c. Pierre Broca d. Sigmund Freud

Answer: c. Pierre Broca was a French researcher in the late 1800s who first identified an area of the left side of the brain that is involved in the production of human speech.

5. What field of psychology was popularized by researchers such as BF Skinner?

a. Empiricism b. Psychoanalysis c. Behaviorism d. Cognitive psychology

Answer: c. BF Skinner was a famous researcher who studied animal behavior and advanced several of the main theories behind behaviorism.

6. Which philosopher in the 1700s doubted that psychology could be a scientific field of study because its phenomena could not be quantified?

a. Johann Herbart b. Gustav Fechner c. Wilhelm Wundt d. Emmanuel Kant

Answer: d. Emmanuel Kant wrote papers on the issue of psychology as an independent science but rejected the possibility, saying that the nature of psychology could not be quantified.

7. Who was considered the first psychologist?

a. William James b. BF Skinner c. Sigmund Freud d. Wilhelm Wundt

Answer: d. Wilhelm Wundt not only published the first textbook on the field of psychology but he was the first to study psychology as an experimental scientist.

8. Who first pioneered the concepts of psychological structuralism, which was an attempt to try to find structure in the mind?

a. Wilhelm Wundt b. William James c. BF Skinner d. Erik Erickson

Answer: a. Wilhelm Wundt studied reaction times and tried to use trained observers who could objectively study the inner workings of their conscious experience. His work was an attempt at structuralism.

9. Which influential therapist pioneered the ideas of client-centered therapy?

a. Carl Rogers b. Abraham Maslow c. Erik Erickson d. Sigmund Freud

Answer: a. Out of the humanistic beliefs of Carl Rogers came the ideas of client-centered therapy, in which the therapist held the patient in a positive regard, had empathy, and showed genuineness as part of the therapeutic process.

10. What branch of psychology is most closely linked to clinical psychology?

a. Social psychology b. Evolutionary psychology c. Counseling psychology d. Sports psychology

Answer: c. Counseling psychology is closely related to clinical psychology but it deals with the issues of people who are otherwise basically psychologically healthy.