1. The psychological school of thought that stressed the whole or complete view of a situation was:
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Gestalt

2. Before this school of thought came about, the main focus of Psychology was to study the unconscious and how the unconscious mind is affected by early life experiences. However, this school of thought stated that the only events that should be studied in Psychology are those that are observable directly; since the unconscious is not observable directly, it should not be studied. What is this school of thought?
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Gestalt

3. This school of thought stated that Psychologists should study the many different components of the mind independently, because in order to understand how the conscious mind works, we must understand all of its individual parts completely. What is this school of thought?
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Gestalt

4. According to this Psychological school of thought, to understand human behavior and thought, one must understand the unconscious mind and the key events that happened early in life that influence the unconscious mind. What is this school of thought?
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Psychoanalysis

5. Psychology as a science evolved from what other two scientific fields?
biology and psychoanalysis
chemistry and philosophy
chemistry and biology
physiology and philosophy

6. Edward Titchener used a method for studying the mind that became very popular during the Structuralist period. The method, called _____ required trained participants to report their conscious mental experiences to the investigator. For example, if a person was angry, they would report all of their experiences during the time they were angry.
Empiricism
Functionalism
Contemplation
Introspection

7. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the idea that the crucial element in understanding behavior was not the conscious mind but the unconscious mind was posited by ______.
Sigmund Freud
John Watson
William James
Mark Stasson

8. According to Abraham Maslow and the ______ perspective, a person's individual subjective experience of the world is the most important subject matter in Psychology and the only way to really understand human behavior and thought.
behaviorist
humanistic
cognitive
psychoanalytic

9. The dominant perspective in modern psychology is the ______ perspective, which is a combination of the Gestalt and Behaviorist perspectives. It is like Gestalt Psychology because it identifies the importance of how the mind perceives and organizes information. It is like the Behaviorist perspective because the need for controlled experimental studies are needed to understand human behavior and thought properly.
behaviorist
humanistic
cognitive
psychoanalytic

10. The idea that to obtain true knowledge, this knowledge must be acquired through one of the senses is known as:
functionalism
empiricism
capitalism
satanism

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