Adamson University

College of Science
Psychology Department
Exercise No. 1
Name : _____________________________________
Course : ____________________________________

Date : _________________

THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE. Write the word True if the statement is correct and
False if it is wrong. Underline the word that makes it incorrect and write the correct
word. Answers shall be written on the space provided after each statement.

1. John Locke believed that the mind is a tabula rasa or a blank slate and
argues that knowledge is acquired through experience and interactions
with the world. ____________________ .
2. Wilhelm James established the first psychological laboratory at the
University of Leipzig, Germany. His investigations centered on senses,
attention, emotion, and memory. ________________________ .
3. Physiological psychology studies behavioral bases of behavior, focusing
on the nervous system. ___________________________.
4. Positive Psychology is an emerging perspective devoted to the study of
subjective feelings of happiness, well being, and good life
_____________________________.
5. William James introduced behaviorism, which was concerned with how the
consciousness functions _____________________.
6. Abraham Maslow - major proponent of Humanism who emphasized human
potential, needs, and lifes meaning. _______________________.
7. Cognitive approach included mental processes in the equation to fully understand
human behavior.__________________.

8. Socrates believed that ideas are innate and the soul is the most important
possession of man. _________________.

9. John B. Watson - founder of structuralism who redefined psychology as the

study of observable behavior _______________________.
10. Gestalt Psychology which means whole or form in 1912. It suggests
that for one to study behavior, one has to look at the totality of the
experience. ________________________.
11. Psychoanalysis was developed by Edward Bradford Titchener. His
theory is concerned with the causal role of wishes and beliefs in human
life. _______________________.
12. Rene Descartes is French Philosopher and Mathematician who
proposed the mind-body interaction and the value of innate ideas.
_______________________________.
13. Social psychology studies behaviors of individuals in groups and how
people affect one another's behavior. __________________________.
14. Evolutionary Psychology is a new field that calls for multidisciplinary
background like psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and biology in
order to determine genetic, sociological, or biological origins of adaptive
or psychological mechanisms. _____________________.
15. Clinical psychology addresses the questions of how cognitive functions
are produced by the brain using new techniques like brain scanning or
neuroimaging to view image of the brain during psychological
phenomena. ________________________.
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer.

1. Introduced the theory of evolution stating the origins of man.

a. Sigmund Freud b. Titchener
c. Charles Darwin
d. William James
2. Is credited for founding the American Psychological Association (APA) and becomes
its first
president.
a. Titchener
b. G. Stanley Hall c. Charles Darwin
d. J. McKeen
Cattell
3. Designed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF).
a. Abraham Maslow b. G. Stanley Hall c. Max Wertheimer
Cattell

d. J. McKeen

4. Similar to interview method which considers region, dialect, local culture, choice
of venue
and timing.
a. Pagtatanong-tanong
b. Pakikipanuluyan
c. pakapa-kapa d. none

5. Are those that are not part of the study but may affect the receiver of the
intervention.
a. DV
b. IV
c. Extraneous Variable d. Compounding variable
6. Branch of psychology that studies the stability and change of characteristics,
such as intelligence or social skills, over the life span.
a. Comparative
b. developmental
c. clinical
d. educational
7. Deals with academic, work, or social personal problems. They deal with less
serious psychological problems unlike clinical psychologists.
a. abnormal
b. counseling
c. clinical
d. physiological
8. Considered as the most scientific method of all since it controls all possible
factors that can affect the study.
a. correlational
b. validity
c. experimental
d. case study
9. Are used to look for relationships or associations between two or more variables
a. correlational
b. validity
c. experimental
d. case study
10. Year when psychology was under Philosophy in the Philippines.
a. 1898
b. 1900
c. 1879
d. 1960
11. Its levels of relationship of the researcher starts from paninimbang hanggang
malalimang pakikipagpalagayang-loob.
a. Correlation
b. pakikisuno
c. panunuluyan
d.paka-pakapa
12. UST was the first institution to offer BS, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in
Psychology.
a. UP
b. UST
c. Ateneo
d. DLSU

13. Studies behaviors of individuals in groups and how people affect one another's behavior.
a. Cognitive
b. counseling
c. clinical
d. social
14. It studies the factors that affect an individuals performance in physical activity.
a. Sports
b. Industrial
c. comparative
d. educational
15.Proposed that the human mind was composed of three elements: the id, the ego, and the
superego.
a. Cognitive
b. behavioral
c. psychoanalytic
d.
phenomenological