Quiz 1
O Please clear your desk of everything except
for a pen or pencil and a piece of paper.
O No talking or use of cell phones or
electronics.
O Write your name and section number on the
piece of paper
1. What kind of psychologist might
ask the question, “are there certain
types of people who are more or
less likely to play games?”
A. Social Psychologist
B. Comparative Psychologist
C. Personality Psychologist
D. Clinical Psychologist
2. What kind of psychologist
specializes in behavioral
consequences resulting from
a disease or trauma to the
brain?
A. Clinical
Neuropsychologist
B. Health Psychologist
C. Organizational
Psychologist
D. Cognitive Psychologist
3. Which philosopher was
first to debunk the idea of
animism?
A. John Locke
B. Rene Descartes
C. Pierre Flourens
D. Francis Bacon
4. What does tabula rasa
mean?
A. Truth from reason
B. Mind as machine
C. Natural psyche
D. Blank slate
5. Who authored the
doctrine of specific nerve
energies?
A. Wilhelm Wundt
B. James Baldwin
C. Phillippe Pinel
D. Johannes Müller
6. Which theory states “reality
can only be known through the
understanding of the physical
world, including the mind”?
A. Materialism
B. Functionalism
C. Determinism
D. Doctrine of specific nerve
energies
a major player in the major
trend of Rationalism.
8. Who of the following was
a major player in the major
trend of Materialism?
A. Skinner
B. Descartes
C. Pavlov
D. Mill
A. Skinner
B. Descartes
C. Pavlov
D. Mill
7. Who of the following was
9. Donald Hebb argued that behavioral and mental
phenomena could be related to brain activity, and was an
important proponent of the field of _______.
A. Cognitive psychology
B. Gestalt psychology
C. Humanistic psychology
D. Neurobiology
10. What is empiricism?
A. The philosophical belief that reality consists of mind and matter
B. The philosophical view that all knowledge is obtained by reason
C. The philosophical view that all knowledge is obtained through
observation and experience
D. A philosophical belief that reality can be known through an
understanding of the physical world
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instead of the grade you would have otherwise
earned. All incompletes must be resolved by
the end of the next quarter or they
automatically become Fs.
Things to Know
• Kelli Lauderdale
• klaud001@ucr.edu
• Office Hours 11:00 to 1:00 Thursday in 2505
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Memorize
Applied
Knowledge
People
SOD
Memorize – Terms, Concepts, Theories,
and ideas that you should memorize for
the class
Applied Knowledge – Terms, concepts,
theories and ideas that you will be
expected to be able to take and apply it
to differ situations.
People – Anyone that provide an
important contribution to psychology,
know who they are and what they did.
Small Overlooked Details (SOD) – small
details that people often overlook but
often obnoxiously and contemptibly
show up in exam questions.
• http://vimeo.com/27323548
What is Animism?
Animism: all animals and all
moving objects possess spirits
controlling their movements and
thoughts.
Rene Descartes
“Father of ? modern philosophy”
• Debunked animism
What else is Rene Descartes
known for?
• Reflexes
• Rationalism: truth through reason
• Dualism: reality consists of
mind and matter
umm… no.
Other Important Philosophers:
John Locke
James Mill
• Empiricism:
• Materialism:
the pursuit of truth
through observation
and experience.
reality can be known only
through an understanding
of the physical world, of
which the mind is a part.
Biological Roots of Psychology
Match the Person…
To His Contribution.
• Johannes Mueller?
• Experimental Ablation
• Pierre Flourens?
• Doctrine of specific nerve
energies
• Paul Broca?
• Localization of speech
production
Education and Therapy
Based on determinism:
behavior is a result of prior effects
Education and Therapy
Match the Person…
To His/Her Contribution.
• Edward Thorndike?
•
Ran the first asylum as a theraputic
institution
• Maria Montessori?
•
The law of Effect – stimuli that occur
as a consequence of a response can
increase or decrease the likelyhood of
that organism’s making that response
again
•
Children are sensitive to different kinds
of instruction at specific age ranges
• Phillippe Pinel?
Where do they belong?
Structuralism
2 John . Watson
6.Wilhelm
Wundt
1. Donald Hebb
Functionalism
Behaviorism
3. Max
Wertheimer
Cognition
5. Ivan Pavlov
4.Charles
Darwin
Neurobiology