Advanced Topics in Psychology Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course delves into cutting-edge areas of psychological research and theory, exploring complex topics such as neuropsychology, cognitive science, social influences on behavior, psychological assessment, and emerging treatment modalities. Students will critically examine contemporary issues, participate in in-depth discussions, and review current literature to deepen their understanding of advanced psychological concepts. Through case studies and research projects, learners will develop analytical skills and apply advanced insights to real-world psychological challenges, preparing them for further academic study or professional practice in the field.
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A History of Modern Psychology 11th Edition by Duane P. Schultz
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Chapter 1: The Study of the History of Psychology
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Q1) The term historiography refers to ____.
A)historical biography
B)methods used in psychological autopsy
C)the techniques,principles,and issues involved in historical research
D)the scientific study of history
E)the study of the history of psychology
Answer: C
Q2) According to the textbook,psychology as a discipline has ____.
A)engaged in the discriminatory practices that mark American culture as a whole
B)been substantially more discriminatory against women than have other sciences
C)been substantially more discriminatory against minorities than have other sciences
D)focused on the reduction of discrimination since its beginnings
E)None of the choices are correct
Answer: A
Q3) Psychology is one of the oldest and one of the newest scholarly disciplines.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Philosophical Influences on Psychology
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Q1) Locke used simple and complex ideas to describe his theory of association,now commonly known as learning.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Descartes argued that all processes are functions of the body except ____.
A)reflexes
B)will
C)perception
D)sensation
E)thought
Answer: E
Q3) A fundamental difference between Descartes's psychology and that of Locke was their position about the existence of ____.
A)innate ideas
B)derived ideas
C)idea doctrines
D)simple ideas
E)complex ideas
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Physiological Influences on Psychology
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Q1) Biology was very rapidly accepted as a science in England and France.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Fechner's flash of insight about the mind-body connection was that there is a(n)____ relationship between a mental sensation and a material stimulus.
A)null
B)quantitative
C)one-to-one
D)qualitative
E)unobservable
Answer: B
Q3) Weber suggested that discrimination among sensations depended on ____.
A)audition
B)vision
C)a constant ratio that would be consistent for all of the senses
D)the absolute difference between two weights
E)the relative difference or ratio between two weights
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: The New Psychology
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Q1) According to Wundt,there were two elementary forms of experience,namely ____.
A)sensation and perception
B)sensation and feelings
C)images and feelings
D)sensation and images
E)immediate experience and mediate experience
Q2) Given that many of his research findings remain valid today,____ can be seen as more influential than ____.
A)Ebbinghaus;Wundt
B)Wundt;Ebbinghaus
C)König;Brentano
D)Wundt;Brentano
E)Brentano;König
Q3) Wundt's term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the ____.
A)elements of consciousness
B)individual's choice to apply his/her knowledge base to a situation
C)idea that a stimulus in the environment can force us to pay attention
D)power of the will to organize the contents of the mind
E)ability of the individual to "make the nonconscious conscious"
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Chapter 5: Structuralism
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the three essential problems for psychology,according to Titchener?
A)to reduce conscious processes to their simplest components
B)to study how these components were synthesized into higher-level processes
C)to determine laws by which these elements of consciousness were associated
D)to connect these elements with their physiological correlates
E)None of the answers is correct.
Q2) The influence of mechanism on Titchener is exemplified in his ____.
A)atomism
B)elementism
C)determinism
D)use of the dehumanizing term subjects rather than observers
E)use of the chemistry term reagents instead of observers
Q3) Titchener's introspection methods were similar in some respects to Külpe's.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Later in his career,Titchener adopted the designation "existential psychology" for his system.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Functionalism: Antecedent Influences
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Q1) In what specific ways did Darwin's data and theory influence psychology in terms of both subject matter and methods?
Q2) When in England,Darwin displayed a wide variety of physical symptoms.These symptoms were probably ____.
A)caused by the muscular disorder he later died from B)psychosomatic-neurotic in origin
C)faked
D)caused by over-exposure to lead in his drinking water
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q3) Explain evolutionary theory using the study of finches' beaks.
Q4) According to Darwin,human emotional expressions reflect ____.
A)a similarity of nervous systems between people and animals
B)a correspondence of the "fight or flight" responses in humans and animals
C)the inheritance of animal responses that may not be adaptive for humans
D)evidence of animal intelligence
E)evidence of instincts in humans
Q5) Galton gave us the correlational coefficient measure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Functionalism: Development and Founding
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Q1) This person was born into a wealthy American family.He eventually received a medical degree and taught psychology at Harvard University.
A)John Dewey
B)James Angell
C)Edward Bradford Titchener
D)Herbert Spencer
E)William James
Q2) Hall had an interest in ____.
A)psychic phenomena
B)music and tones
C)religion
D)emotions
E)the education of women
Q3) Describe and compare James's new look at consciousness with the views of Wundt.
Q4) In his most significant work in psychology,Dewey rejected the reductionism of the natural sciences and of the European philosophies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Applied Psychology: the Legacy of Functionalism
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Q1) Cattell agreed to employ Witmer at the University of Pennsylvania if he would ____.
A)study with Freud
B)study with James at Harvard
C)earn his Ph.D.with Hall at Clark
D)earn his Ph.D.at Columbia
E)earn his Ph.D.with Wundt at Leipzig
Q2) According to Cattell,by 1895 psychology was ____.
A)a required subject for an undergraduate degree
B)being irreparably damaged by the Structuralist-functionalist quarreling
C)still synonymous with metaphysics for most Americans
D)most vigorously opposed by the traditional natural sciences
E)relatively unpopular in those few colleges that offered courses in it
Q3) Binet and Simon's test differed from those of Galton and Cattell in its ____.
A)emphasis on the relationship of higher cognitive processes to intelligence
B)emphasis on the evolution of children's mental abilities
C)emphasis on the recapitulation of childhood abilities in adolescence
D)emphasis on using sensorimotor tests to assess mental abilities
E)inclusion of Hall's questionnaires as a device for assessing mental abilities
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Chapter 9: Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences
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Q1) The early 20th-century Zeitgeist in science was marked by ____.
A)behaviorism
B)positivism
C)functionalism
D)experimentation
E)nihilism
Q2) By the second decade of the 20th century,psychologists agreed on the ____.
A)value of introspection
B)existence of mental elements
C)need for psychology to be a pure science
D)replacement of structuralism by functionalism
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q3) For Loeb,if an animal's response is forced by a stimulus,the ____.
A)behavior does not need explanation
B)behavior is positivist
C)behavior requires no inferences about consciousness
D)animal is unable to perceive and discriminate between objects
E)animal is unable to display purposive behavior
Q4) Describe Pavlov's work on conditioning,including his experimental method and the extent to which he attempted to control irrelevant variables.
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Chapter 10: Behaviorism: the Beginnings
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Q1) Watson rejected the whole notion of the unconscious because ____.
A)it ,like the rest of psychoanalysis,was voodooism
B)it called for use of the method of introspection
C)it could not be objectively observed
D)it,like the rest of psychoanalysis,was voodooism and it could not be objectively observed
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q2) John B.Watson was quite dismayed to learn that his dissertation was less brilliant in the eyes of Dewey and Angell than that of ____.
A)Mary Baldwin
B)Mary Calkins
C)Helen Woolley
D)Rosalie Rayner
E)Mary Cover Jones
Q3) Watson's position on childrearing was ____.
A)that of a strong environmentalist
B)to "spare the rod,spoil the child"
C)to use affection and social reinforcements exclusively
D)to follow Thorndike's law of effect
E)to follow Pavlov's law of reinforcement
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Chapter 11: Behaviorism: After the Founding
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Q1) For Hull,behavior could be reduced to the language of physiology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hull's background in mathematics and engineering was demonstrated in ____.
A)his development of statistical analysis methods
B)his invention of a machine to calculate correlations
C)the use of postulates and axioms in his system
D)his description and explanation of behavior in mathematical equations
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q3) Describe Tolman's five "causes" of behavior.What were Hull's positions on each of these factors?
Q4) From the 1950s to the 1980's,American Psychology was shaped more by the work of ____ than by the work of any other psychologist.
A)Tolman
B)Hull
C)Skinner
D)Tolman.
E)Mowrer
Q5) Describe,compare,and contrast the three stages of behaviorism.
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Chapter 12: gestalt Psychology
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Q1) Perhaps the best known of the books written by the Gestalt psychologists,The Mentality of Apes,____.
A)was the result of the influence of Darwin's theory of evolution
B)documented animals' purposeful behaviors to solve problems
C)aided in the discovery of perceptual constancies
D)is an example of the application of field theory to the behavior of monkeys
E)demonstrates the influence of the functionalist school and its emphasis on adaptation
Q2) Contrary to the notion of a passive mind,as portrayed by the British empiricists,the German philosopher Kant held that the mind ____.
A)is a stream of consciousness
B)actively organizes sensory information into a coherent experience
C)actively organizes sensory information according to a mechanical process of association
D)is sensitive to perceptions,not sensations
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q3) Insight learning requires a restructuring of the perceptual field.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis: the Beginnings
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Q1) By the 1930s and 1940s,psychoanalysis ____.
A)as a whole was generally ignored by academic psychology
B)was seen as a threat to the stature and dominance of behaviorism
C)was perceived by American academics to be a variation of Gestalt psychology
D)was wholeheartedly embraced by the American public
E)as both a domain of study and as a therapy was confined to Germany
Q2) The notion of the pleasure principle was borrowed by Freud from ____.
A)Aristotle
B)Watson
C)Leibnitz
D)Darwin
E)Fechner
Q3) Psychoanalysis was eradicated in Germany by ____.
A)the Wundtians and Gestalt psychologists alike
B)the Nazi party
C)Adler and Jung,the dissidents of Freud
D)the blitz at the hands of the Allies in World War II
E)Freud's move to London
Q4) To what extent has there been scientific validation of psychoanalytic concepts? For which concepts is there the most research support and for which the least?
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Chapter 14: Psychoanalysis: After the Founding
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Q1) Like Freud,Jung's theory ____.
A)was autobiographical
B)focused on sex
C)discounted the role of outside influences
D)emphasized the importance of the collective consciousness
E)None of the above.
Q2) The neo-Freudians focused on the influence of psychosocial factors rather than on the sexual determinants of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Unlike Freud,Jung believed thoughts about the future affected current behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the selection from Motivation and Personality,Maslow describes the ____ of self-actualizing people.
A)continuous search for new,exciting experiences
B)ability to experience boredom
C)dissatisfaction with everyday life
D)continued freshness of appreciation
E)eleven characteristics
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Chapter 15: Contemporary Developments in Psychology
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Q1) Describe the nature of the founding of cognitive psychology,the roles played by Miller and Neisser in developing it,and the major contributions of each.
Q2) The "new" Zeitgeist in physics is characterized by ____.
A)chaos theory
B)Berkeley's argument that objective knowledge is subjective knowledge
C)the notion that the objective universe is unknowable
D)the notion of relativity
E)the use of magnetic resonance as an index of conscious processes
Q3) Describe the distinctions between early approaches and contemporary cognitive approaches to introspection,unconscious cognition,and animal cognition.
Q4) Skinner's psychology is best viewed as the last stage in the development of psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Humanistic psychology failed to make an impact as a separate school of thought within psychology.
A)True
B)False
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