Make sure psychology's past is still present in your memory by choosing the correct response from each pair of terms in parentheses:

Question

1. Psychology has been a science for more than (2,000/140) years.

2. The forerunners of modern psychology depended heavily on (casual observation/empirical methods).

3. Credit for founding modern psychology is generally given to (William James/Wilhelm Wundt).

4. Early psychologists who emphasized how behavior helps an organism adapt to its environment were known as (structuralists/functionalists).

5. The idea that emotional problems spring from unconscious conflicts originated with (the Mind Cure movement/psychoanalysis).

Answer 1

1. 140

2. casual observation

3. Wilhelm Wundt

4. functionalists

5. psychoanalysis