Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:
- Which of the following was mentioned as a skill to which psychology students would be exposed?
- critical thinking
- use of the scientific method
- critical evaluation of sources of information
- all of the above
- Psyche is a Greek word meaning ________.
- Essence
- Soul
- Behaviour
- Love
- Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the mind were undertaken by those in ________.
- biology
- chemistry
- philosophy
- physics
- In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a(n) ________.
- observation
- measurement
- test
- proposed explanation
- Based on your reading, which theorist would have been most likely to agree with this statement: Perceptual phenomena are best understood as a combination of their components.
- William James
- Max Wertheimer
- Carl Rogers
- Noam Chomsky
- ________ is most well-known for proposing his hierarchy of needs.
- Noam Chomsky
- Carl Rogers
- Abraham Maslow
- Sigmund Freud
- Rogers believed that providing genuineness, empathy, and ________ in the therapeutic environment for his clients was critical to their being able to deal with their problems.
- structuralism
- functionalism
- Gestalt
- unconditional positive regard
- The operant conditioning chamber (aka ________ box) is a device used to study the principles of operant conditioning.
- Skinner
- Watson
- James
- Koffka
