A. The study of behavior
B. The study of mental activity
C. The science that studies behavior and mental process
D. None of these
E. All of these
Related Mcqs:
- Psychology as a ‘Science of Mind’ defined by__________ school of psychology?
A. Psychoanalysts
B. Behaviourists
C. Functionalists
D. Ancient Greek Philosophers - J.B. Watson, the founder and father of behaviouristic school of psychology, defined ‘Psychology’ as the science of_____________?
A. Soul
B. Consciousness
C. Mind
D. Behaviour - Psychology as a ‘Science of Mind’, defined by____________ psychology?
A. Psychoanalysts
B. Behaviourists
C. Functionalists
D. Ancient Greek Philosophers - If psychology can be defined as the science of behavior and the mind, why are the data in psychology always drawn from behavior?
A. behavior can be influenced by physiology and the mind cannot
B. behavior can be influenced by the environment and the mind cannot
C. behavior can be observed and the mind cannot
D. All of above - Community psychology, health psychology, and neuropsychology are considered which of the following in clinical psychology?
A. Precursors
B. Continuums
C. Inferences
D. Subspecialties - Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?
A. Eclectic approach
B. Psychodynamic
C. Humanistic
D. Biological - Psychologists who are interested in the perception of the motion, part-whole relationships and in how people judge size were identified with what school of psychology?
A. psychoanalytic
B. gestalt
C. biological
D. structural - Who defined “Psychology as the science of immediate experience with consci- ousness being the main subject matter”?
A. E.B. Titchener
B. William James
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Wilhelm Wundt
E. Both A. & D. - Which branch of psychology is defined as an effort to understand the specific biological mechanisms that control behavior and psychological experience?
A. ethnology
B. neuropsychology
C. physiological psychology
D. structuralism
E. None of these - Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of:
A. conscious and unconscious mental activity
B. maladaptive and adaptive behaviors
C. behavior and mental processes
D. observable responses to the environment
