History of Psychology Tests with Answers

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tests with answers on the topic History of Psychology

single-answer task

True or false?
1. Memory as a separate mental process was first singled out by Plato.
2. According to Epicurus, knowledge is based on our personal experience given to us in our sensations.
3. Augustine of Hippo claimed that the foundation of the soul is reason.
4. Francis Bacon is the founder of rationalism.
5. René Descartes introduced the term "reflex" into psychology.
6. Benedict Spinoza proclaimed the freedom of the human will.
7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz claimed that, besides conscious perceptions, there are also unconscious ones.
8. John Locke understood association to be the erroneous connection in the mind of ideas that are unrelated to each other and independent of each other.
9. The word "psychology" became widely known in Europe after the publication of the books of the German philosopher Christian Wolff.
10. The ideas of associationism gained their greatest popularity in Germany.
11. George Berkeley believed that the perception of depth and distance becomes possible thanks to tactile sensations.
12. Wilhelm Wundt denied the existence of unconscious mental processes.
13. The experimental study of thinking was first undertaken by Francis Galton.
14. William James considered the main task of psychology to be the study of the structure of consciousness.
15. H. Ebbinghaus asked his subjects to memorize nonsense syllables.
16. E. Titchener considered introspection the only correct method of studying consciousness.
17. C. Stumpf considered functions (or acts) to be the proper subject of psychology.
18. E. Thorndike was the first among the behaviorists to use the term "behavior".
19. T. Ribot proposed as the object of psychological research the triad: the mentally ill person - the normal person - the genius.
20. L. Lévy-Bruhl claimed that traces of primitive thinking are preserved in modern society.
21. E. Spranger identified and described seven personality types.
22. K. Horney introduced the concept of "self-image" into psychological science.
23. E. Fromm claimed that the ideas of S. Freud and K. Marx had the greatest influence on him.
24. G. Allport formulated the basic tenets of the humanistic psychology of personality.
25. Humanistic psychology influenced the formation of cognitive psychology.
26. I. M. Sechenov did not agree that psychological science should study the laws of behavior and mental processes.
27. K. D. Kavelin initiated the creation of the Moscow Psychological Society at Moscow University.
28. K. N. Kornilov proposed considering the reaction the basic element of the psyche.
29. P. P. Blonsky was the leader of the sociogenetic trend in Soviet psychology.
30. A. N. Leontiev was the first to propose singling out the concept of "activity" as a special category.
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updated: 2026-09-29
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