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  • A. Body
  • B. Mind
  • C. Soul
  • D. Unconscious

Explanation: The biological perspective explains behaviour through bodily functions, including the brain, nervous system, hormones, and genes.

Correct answer: Body
  • A. Cognitive Approach
  • B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
  • C. Holistic Approach
  • D. Existential Approach

Explanation: The dynamic and psychoanalytic approach has retained many of its original, relatively rigid concepts, especially unconscious motives and…

Correct answer: Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
  • A. Stimulus Threshold
  • B. Response Threshold
  • C. Hypothesis
  • D. Problem

Explanation: The stimulus threshold, more precisely the absolute threshold, is the minimum intensity at which a stimulus can be detected.

Correct answer: Stimulus Threshold
  • A. Functionalism
  • B. Behaviourism
  • C. Structuralism
  • D. Gestalt Psychology

Explanation: Structuralism used introspection to analyse the contents of conscious experience into basic mental elements.

Correct answer: Structuralism
  • A. William James
  • B. Alfred Binet
  • C. William McDougall
  • D. J.B. Watson

Explanation: Alfred Binet, working with Théodore Simon, developed the first practical intelligence test and studied higher mental processes such as…

Correct answer: Alfred Binet
  • A. B.F. Skinner
  • B. Fulton
  • C. Cattell
  • D. J.B. Watson

Explanation: J.B. Watson rejected introspection because private conscious experiences could not be objectively observed or verified.

Correct answer: J.B. Watson
  • A. Greenwich
  • B. Zurich
  • C. Leipzig
  • D. Munich

Explanation: Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Correct answer: Leipzig
  • A. Freud
  • B. Allport
  • C. Watson
  • D. Fechner

Explanation: John B. Watson was the leading pioneer of behaviourism, which defined psychology as the objective study of observable behaviour.

Correct answer: Watson
  • A. Sigmund Freud
  • B. B.F. Skinner
  • C. Evan Pavlov
  • D. Wilhelm Wundt

Explanation: Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879, commonly regarded as…

Correct answer: Wilhelm Wundt
  • A. Social Psychology
  • B. Gestalt Psychology
  • C. Industrial Psychology
  • D. Educational Psychology

Explanation: Wolfgang Köhler was a leading Gestalt psychologist who studied perception, insight learning, and problem-solving.

Correct answer: Gestalt Psychology
  • A. Theoretical Psychology
  • B. Applied Psychology
  • C. Educational Psychology
  • D. Abnormal Psychology

Explanation: Industrial psychology applies psychological principles to workplace issues such as selection, training, performance, motivation, and job…

Correct answer: Applied Psychology
  • A. Personality
  • B. Development
  • C. Intelligent
  • D. Fundamentals of all branches of psychologyBook Online Therapy

Explanation: General psychology provides the basic principles and concepts shared by the specialised branches, including personality, development and…

Correct answer: Fundamentals of all branches of psychologyBook Online Therapy
  • A. Mankind
  • B. Living Organism
  • C. Animals
  • D. Plants

Explanation: Psychology is broadly defined as the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes in living organisms.

Correct answer: Living Organism
  • A. Psychoanalysts
  • B. Behaviourists
  • C. Functionalists
  • D. Ancient Greek Philosophers

Explanation: The early philosophical view of psychology as the study of the mind is associated with ancient Greek thinkers who discussed the soul and…

Correct answer: Ancient Greek Philosophers
  • A. Experience
  • B. Thing
  • C. Situation
  • D. Incidence
  • E. Stimulus

Explanation: A stimulus is any internal or external event or condition capable of producing a response in an organism.

Correct answer: Stimulus
  • A. Complex
  • B. simple
  • C. Fixed
  • D. Puzzled
  • E. Dynamic

Explanation: In Woodworth’s S-O-R model, O refers to the organism and its internal processes, which mediate between stimulus and response.

Correct answer: Dynamic
  • A. William James
  • B. J. B. Watson
  • C. William Mc Dougall
  • D. E.B Titchener
  • E. Alfred Binet

Explanation: Alfred Binet, working with Théodore Simon, developed the first practical intelligence test in 1905 to identify children needing…

Correct answer: Alfred Binet
  • A. E.B. Titchener
  • B. William James
  • C. Sigmund Freud
  • D. Wilhelm Wundt
  • E. Both A. & D.Psychology

Explanation: Titchener described psychology as the science of immediate experience, while Wundt treated conscious experience as its subject matter.

Correct answer: Both A. & D.Psychology
  • A. I.P. Pavlov
  • B. C.G. Jung
  • C. E.B. Titchener
  • D. Sigmund Freud
  • E. Woodworth

Explanation: Robert S. Woodworth developed the S-O-R formulation to show that the organism’s internal state mediates the effect of a stimulus on a…

Correct answer: Woodworth
  • A. Woodworth
  • B. Wilhelm Wundt
  • C. William James
  • D. I.P. Pavlov
  • E. J.B Watson

Explanation: J. B. Watson established the behaviourist S-R emphasis by defining psychology around observable stimuli and responses.

Correct answer: J.B Watson