Psychology is defined as the discipline concerned

61. _______________ had the opinion that searching for building blocks of experience was a waste of time because the brain and the mind are constantly changing.

a. William James

b. Wilhelm Wundt

c. Sigmund Freud

d. E. B. Titchener

62. _______________ argued that searching for building blocks of experience was a waste of time because the brain and the mind are constantly changing.

a. Functionalists

b. Structuralists

c. Psychoanalysts

d. Fundamentalists

63. Which of the following questions is a structuralist most likely to ask?

a. What happens when an organism sleeps?

b. How does an organism sleep?

c. Why does an organism sleep?

d. When does an organism sleep?

64. _______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for the underlying causes and practical consequences of these behaviors and processes.

a. Rationalists

b. Structuralists

c. Fundamentalists

d. Functionalists

65. Which of the following schools of psychological thought was influenced by the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin?

a. phrenology

b. structuralism

c. functionalism

d. psychoanalysis

66. Which school of thought in psychology tried to explain how specific behaviors and mental processes help a person adapt to the environment?

a. phrenology

b. structuralism

c. functionalism

d. psychiatry

67. _______________ first broadened the field of psychology to include the study of children, animals, religious experiences, and the “stream of consciousness.”

a. Rationalists

b. Functionalists

c. Fundamentalists

d. Structuralists

68. _______________ set the course of psychological science by emphasizing the causes and consequences of behavior.

a. Functionalists

b. Rationalists

c. Fundamentalists

d. Structuralists

69. _______________ founded the field of psychoanalysis.

a. Sigmund Freud

b. William James

c. Wilhelm Wundt

d. E. B. Titchener

70. Which school of thought in psychology emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind?

a. phrenology

b. structuralism

c. functionalism

d. psychoanalysis