Chapter 1-Introduction & History

Name: _______________________________ Date: _________________ Period: _______________

Instructions: Select the correct answer from the pair provided, then PRINT the correct answer in the
blank provided.
1. Research for the sake of knowledge, not to solve a specific problem is known as ____________
research. Applied/Basic
2. Psychology that is not based on scientific facts or studies, but more on common sense is
_______________________. Introspection/Pseudopsychology
3. The title for someone specializing in the psychology field, who has a medical degree is
_______________. Psychiatrist/Psychologist
4. A psychological school which looks at the whole rather than the sum of the parts is
___________________. Functionalism/Gestalt
5. A ___________________ psychologist focuses on traits and temperaments of individuals.
Developmental/Personality/Neuropsychologist
6. __________________ psychologists help people make changes and adapt. Clinical/Counseling
7. A _____________________ psychiatrist examines the relationship between brain/nervous system
and behavior. Developmental/Personality/Neuropsychologist
8. A __________________ approach might examine how religion influences behavior. Human
Factors/Personality/Sociocultural.
Matching Instructions: Match the Person with their claim to fame. WRITE the letter in the blank
provided.
9. _____ B.F. Skinner
10. _____ Carl Rogers
11. _____ Edward Titchener
12. _____ G. Stanley Hall
13. _____ Ivan Pavlov
14. _____ Max Wertheimer
15. _____ Sigmund Freud
16. _____ Wilhelm Wundt
17. _____ William James

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Behavioralism/Reinforcement
Classical Conditioning
Father of Psychology
Functionalism
Gestalt Laws
Humanistic Approach
Psychoanalysis
Structuralism

Matching Instructions: Match the perspective with the key term. WRITE the letter in the blank
provided
18. _____ Behavioral
19. _____ Biological
20. _____ Cognitive
21. _____ Eclectic
22. _____ Evolutionary
23. _____ Humanistic
24. _____ Psychoanalytic
25. _____ Sociocultural

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Culture
Free Will
Many different ideas
Physiological factors
Reinforcement
Survival of fittest; Darwin
Thinking and Perceptions
Unconscious Mind

Key:
1. Basic
2. Pseudopsychology
3. Psychiatrist
4. Gestalt
5. Personality
6. Counseling
7. Neuropsychologist
8. Sociocultural
9. B
10. G
11. I
12. A
13. C
14. F
15. H
16. D
17. E
18. E
19. D
20. G
21. C
22. F
23. B
24. H
25. A