Psychology: Behaviorism
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What year was psychology institutionalized as a science?

  • 1890
  • 1875
  • 1885
  • 1879 (correct)
  • Who is credited with establishing the first psychological laboratory?

  • Jean Piaget
  • Wilhelm Wundt (correct)
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Albert Bandura
  • What is the title of the field of study discussed in the passage?

  • Social Psychology
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology (correct)
  • Developmental Psychology
  • What is the term for the process of shaping behavior through reinforcement and punishment?

    <p>Operant Conditioning (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Arabic term for the field of study discussed in the passage?

    <p>علم النفس المعرفي (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has helped psychiatry progress?

    <p>Recent findings (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the benefits of the recent findings?

    <p>Relief from mental illness symptoms (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do the recent findings help relieve symptoms of mental illness?

    <p>Through the use of drugs (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main focus of psychiatry according to the text?

    <p>Mental health (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has taken off as a result of the recent findings?

    <p>Psychiatry (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the fundamental principle of behaviorism?

    <p>Analyzing behavior in terms of S-R units (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the 'R' in S-R units represent?

    <p>Response (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of behaviorism?

    <p>Analyzing observable behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the fundamental assumption of behaviorism?

    <p>Behavior can be reduced to learned S-R units (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of behaviorism?

    <p>To analyze behavior in terms of S-R units (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the biological perspective emphasize in humans?

    <p>Mechanisms and physical structures (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a biological mechanism mentioned in the passage?

    <p>Genes (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of the biological perspective in understanding human behavior?

    <p>The physical and biological basis of human behavior (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the biological perspective suggest is essential and important for human behavior?

    <p>Physical structures and mechanisms (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the underlying assumption of the biological perspective?

    <p>Human behavior can be reduced to physical and biological mechanisms (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of most behaviors developed during the EEA?

    <p>To help humans survive (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the EEA primarily associated with?

    <p>Prehistoric human habitats (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do most human behaviors have in common?

    <p>They developed to aid in survival (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main driver behind the development of human behaviors?

    <p>Environmental pressures (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the time period during which most human behaviors developed?

    <p>Prehistoric times (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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