DOQ Questions 1-50

What word means the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?

What are the four goals of psychology?

What word means an assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research?

What word means a set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study?

What term means the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake?

What term means discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals?

What term means a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized?

Who set up the first psychology laboratory?

What year did Wilhelm Wundt set up the first psychology laboratory?

Where did Wilhelm Wundt set up the first psychology laboratory?

What research procedure did Wilhelm Wundt follow?

Who said that criminal behavior is a direct result of the shape of a person's head?

What is the practice of examining bumps on a person;s skkull to determine that person's intellect and character traits?

What is the name of the French philosopher who said that the mind and body influence each other?

What approach to psychology did Wilhelm Wundt advocate?

The first ever psychology class was taught at Harvard in 1875 by whom?

Who wrote the first psychology textbook?

Which approach to psychology did William James advocate?

What is the name of the 19th century English scientist who was the cousin of Charles Darwin and who believed in eugenics?

What is the German word for "whole pattern"?

Who are the three founders of Gestalt Psychology?

Please name the 6 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology.

Who established the Psychoanalytical Approach?

Who are the three great Behavioral Psychologist?

Who are the three great Humanistic Psychologist?

Who are the three great Cognitive Psychologist?

What five machines are used to study the brain?

Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

What does APA stand for?

Who wrote the book The Principles of Psychology?

Who wrote the book Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development?

Who wrote the book Walden II

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by unconscious idea?

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by rewards and punishments?

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by self-directed choices?

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by how people remember and think?

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by the nervous system?

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by ethnicity, gender, and economic status?

Name the two ancient Greek philosophers who developed the Four Human Theory.

Which branch of medicine deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder?

Which kind of psychologist diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances?

Which kind of psychologist studies how people change as they mature?

What does RET stand for?

What does CBT stand for?

What is the opposite of Free Will?

What word means the process
of drilling a hole in a skull?

Who believed in Dualism?

Who believed in Empiricism?

What does tabula rasa mean?

Who said, "Cogito ergo sum"?