AP Psych Unit 1 Multiple Choice Questions Which of the following best describes the view of the mind held by Plato and Socrates?
a) The mind should be studied through careful, empirical observations.
b) The mind is an illusion produced by the brain.
c) The mind is separate from the body and continues after the body dies.
d) The mind is made up of knowledge that is a result of our experiences.
e) The mind results from biological processes produced by neural transmissions. - correct answer The
mind is separate from the body and continues after the body dies.Which philosopher was the first to conclude that knowledge results from our memories of our experiences?
- Plato
- Socrates
- Kant
- Descartes
- Aristotle - correct answer Aristotle
- structuralism and functionalism
- brain fluid and "animal spirits"
- blank slate and empiricism
- astrology and tabula rasa
- innate knowledge and experimental data - correct answer Brain fluid and animal spirits 1 / 4
Descartes' theory of how our brain controlled our reflexes involved which of the following?
Which philosopher is most well-known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a "blank slate"?
- Plato
- John Locke
- Immanuel Kant
- René Descartes
- Aristotle - correct answer John Locke
- Plato and Socrates.
- John Locke and Francis Bacon.
- Plato and René Descartes.
- Socrates and Confucius.
- Aristotle and Socrates - correct answer John Locke and Francis Bacon
- Plato
- Socrates
- Aristotle
- René Descartes
- Immanuel Kant - correct answer Aristotle
- William James.
- John Watson.
- Wilhelm Wundt.
- Sigmund Freud.
- Jean Piaget. - correct answer Wilhelm Wundt 2 / 4
The ideas that most directly helped form modern empiricism were proposed by
Which philosopher would have been most enthusiastic about modern empiricism?
The first psychological laboratory was established by
Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of
- animal intelligence.
- personality development.
- learning and memory.
- reactions to sensory stimulation.
- association and generalization. - correct answer Reactions to sensory stimulation
- empiricism
- structuralism
- tabula rasa
- laboratory research
- separation of mind and body - correct answer laboratory research
- the causes of mental illnesses
- social conformity
- the simplest mental processes
- childhood development
- causes of aggression - correct answer the simplest mental processes
- His scientific philosophy was carefully built on Descartes' idea about mind-body dualism.
- He gathered data through experiments in his lab.
- He treated patients with mental illnesses using a medical model for the first time.
- His attention to genetic causes was ahead of his time.
- He analyzed data from his studies using inferential statistics. - correct answer He gathered data
Which of the following innovations differentiated Wilhelm Wundt's research the most from any psychologist before him?
Wilhelm Wundt's early experiments were attempts to investigate which area of psychology?
Why is Wilhelm Wundt often considered the first scientific psychological researcher?
through experiments in his lab 3 / 4
In Wilhelm Wundt's experiments, participants were asked to press a key as soon as they were consciously aware of perceiving a sound. By asking participants to examine and report their conscious experiences, Wundt was making use of which of the following?
- structuralism
- empiricism
- tabula rasa
- introspection
- functionalism - correct answer introspection
- Aristotle
- John Locke
- Edward Titchener
- John Watson
- Socrates - correct answer Edward Titchener
- clinical psychology.
- introspection.
- spaced practice.
- humanism.
- Gestalt psychology. - correct answer introspection
- John Watson
- Charles Darwin
- Edward Titchener
- B. F. Skinner
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Who used the method of introspection to scientifically identify basic elements of mind?
The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called
Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images.