Honors Midterm Exam 1. One of the reasons to study psychology is a. to understand the human mind and how it works. b. to learn how to manipulate others. C. to completely understand and predict human behavior. d. to have the answers to all of life's questions. 2. The "father"of psychology and founder of the first psychological laboratory was a. Wilhelm Wundt. b. Sigmund Freud. C. John B. Watson. d. B. F. Skinner. 3. The structuralist school of psychology a. used introspection to analyze conscious experience. b. relied heavily on the concept of natural selection. C. was concerned with experiences as "wholes." d. used dream analysis to reveal the unconscious. 4. You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices that you make in your life and that you could make in your life. This psychologist would probably belong to the school of psychology. a. Humanistic b.Psychoanalytic C. Behavioristic d.Gestalt 5. psychology is concerned with thinking, language, and problem solving. a Behavioristic b C.Cognitive d. Humanistic 6. A scientific explanation that remains tentative until it has been adequately tested is called a(n) a. theory. b. law. C. hypothesis. d.experiment. 7. An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning. Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music The independent variable is a. learning b. the size of the group. C. the material studied. d. musiC. 8. Which of the following best describes a double-blind experimental procedure? a. All subjects get the experimental procedure. b. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure,half the placebo; which they receive is known only to the experimenter. C. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is not known to subjects or experimenters. d. All subjects get the control procedure.

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Honors Midterm Exam 1. One of the reasons to study psychology is a. to understand the human mind and how it works. b. to learn how to manipulate others. C. to completely understand and predict human behavior. d. to have the answers to all of life's questions. 2. The "father"of psychology and founder of the first psychological laboratory was a. Wilhelm Wundt. b. Sigmund Freud. C. John B. Watson. d. B. F. Skinner. 3. The structuralist school of psychology a. used introspection to analyze conscious experience. b. relied heavily on the concept of natural selection. C. was concerned with experiences as "wholes." d. used dream analysis to reveal the unconscious. 4. You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices that you make in your life and that you could make in your life. This psychologist would probably belong to the school of psychology. a. Humanistic b.Psychoanalytic C. Behavioristic d.Gestalt 5. psychology is concerned with thinking, language, and problem solving. a Behavioristic b C.Cognitive d. Humanistic 6. A scientific explanation that remains tentative until it has been adequately tested is called a(n) a. theory. b. law. C. hypothesis. d.experiment. 7. An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning. Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music The independent variable is a. learning b. the size of the group. C. the material studied. d. musiC. 8. Which of the following best describes a double-blind experimental procedure? a. All subjects get the experimental procedure. b. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure,half the placebo; which they receive is known only to the experimenter. C. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is not known to subjects or experimenters. d. All subjects get the control procedure.

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1. **a. to understand the human mind and how it works.** Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to explain how we think, feel, and act.2. **a. Wilhelm Wundt.** Wundt established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879, marking the beginning of psychology as a separate scientific discipline.3. **a. used introspection to analyze conscious experience.** Structuralism, primarily associated with Wundt and Titchener, focused on breaking down mental processes into their basic components through self-examination (introspection).4. **a. Humanistic.** Humanistic psychology emphasizes personal growth, self-actualization, and free will. The psychologist's focus on the individual's goals, self-image, and choices aligns with humanistic principles.5. **c. Cognitive.** Cognitive psychology specifically studies mental processes like thinking, language, memory, and problem-solving.6. **c. hypothesis.** A hypothesis is a testable prediction or proposed explanation for a phenomenon. It's a starting point for scientific investigation and requires further testing to be confirmed or refuted.7. **d. music.** The independent variable is the factor that is manipulated or changed by the researcher. In this case, the presence or absence of music is the manipulated variable.8. **c. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is not known to subjects or experimenters.** A double-blind procedure eliminates bias from both the participants and the researchers by keeping everyone unaware of who is receiving the actual treatment and who is receiving the placebo.

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