Psych chapter 1-3 quiz
Psychology Foundations Quiz
Test your knowledge of the foundational concepts in psychology with this engaging quiz! Designed for students and enthusiasts alike, it covers essential topics from the early philosophical theories to modern psychological practices.
- Multiple choice questions
- Focus on chapters 1-3 of introductory psychology
- Ideal for both self-assessment and study preparation
The philosophical idea that all mental processes in the mind are reducible to physical processes in the brain is known as;
Philosophical materialism.
Philosophical nativism.
Philosophical empiricism.
Philosophical realism.
The idea that complex mental phenomena like conscious awareness can be understood by breaking them down into elemental parts and studying these is called;
idealism
Structuralism
Behaviourism
Gestalt psychology
Which of these people most influenced functionalism?
Skinner
Freud
Darwin
Pavlov
John Watson thought behaviourism;
Was the right way to study animals but the wrong way to study people.
Was the right way to study animals but the wrong way to study people.
Would make psychology an objective science.
Would make psychology an objective science.
B. F. Skinner’s principle of reinforcement explains
The emergence of cultural psychology.
Why lights can appear to be moving even when they really aren’t.
Why structuralism failed.
How behaviour is shaped by its consequences
The American psychologists who resisted behaviourism in the early 1900s were
Social psychologists.
Neuroscientists
Evolutionary psychologists
Philosophical dualists.
The cognitive revolution was made possible by;
Chomsky’s critique of Pavlov.
The advent of the digital computer.
The invention of fMRI.
The invention of the Skinner box.
Two new areas of psychology that have emerged in the 21st century are;
Behavioural neuroscience and cultural psychology.
Cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
Gestalt psychology and developmental psychology.
Social psychology and cultural psychology.
Psychoanalysis is meant to help people;
Isolate the basic elements of conscious experience.
Respond to stimuli.
Obtain reinforcements.
Attain insight into their unconscious minds.
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