What is Psychology? — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

An increase in the magnitude of a conditioned response after a period of time with no explicit training is known as ____________.

1. Extinction.
2. Spontaneous recovery.

____________ is concerned with the attempt to understand human behaviour from the biological perspective.

1. Biopsychology.
2. Abnormal psychology.

The famous book ‘Principles of Psychology's written by _____________.

1. J.B. Watson.
2. William James.

In conducting a survey, the investigator selects a few subjects called a _______ and then makes the decision regarding the more general significance of his findings.

1. Sample.
2. Data.

The Behaviorist school of psychology was founded by ____________.

1. Max Wertheimer.
2. J.B. Watson.

______________ is the process of learning to make one response to one stimulus and another response or no response to another stimulus.

1. Discrimination.
2. Stimulus generalization.

________ pioneered both the development of statistics and the study of individual difference.

1. Sir Francis Galton.
2. J.B. Watson.

According to psychoanalytic theory, the urges and drives are hidden from the awareness of the individual, in other words, they are _____________.

1. Subconscious.
2. Unconscious.

____________ psychology is a broad field in which psychological knowledge is brought to bear upon social problems.

1. Community.
2. Applied.

The first psychological laboratory was established by _____________.

1. Wilhelm Wundt.
2. J.B. Watson.