Chapter 1

Question 1

Who was Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 1

Forerunner of Experimental Psychology

Question 2

Who were John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner?

Answer 2

Forerunners of Behaviorism

Question 3

Who was Max Wertheimer?

Answer 3

Forerunner of Gestalt Psychology

Question 4

Who were Ulric Neisser and Noam Chomsky?

Answer 4

Influences of the Cognitive Revolution

Question 5

Dependent Variable

Answer 5

Variable being measured

Question 6

Independent Variable

Answer 6

Variable being manipulated

Question 7

Experimental psychology

Answer 7

A method of studying psychology through lab research

Question 8

Introspection

Answer 8

self detailed reports of reactions to multiple stimuli

Question 9

Random Assignment

Answer 9

assigning participants to receive different conditions of an experiment by chance

Question 10

Behvaiorism

Answer 10

focuses on the idea that all behvaiors are learned through interaction with the environment.

Question 11

Empiricism

Answer 11

The belief that knowledge is based on experiences

Question 12

Confound

Answer 12

factors that can undermine your ability to draw causal inferences

Question 13

gestalt psychology

Answer 13

the teaching that the whole is greater than the parts

Question 14

Correlation vs. Causation

Answer 14

Corrleation links two things. Causation is one thing being the cause of another