History of Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
History of Psychology explores the origins and development of psychological thought and practice from ancient times to the present. The course examines major philosophical, scientific, and cultural influences that have shaped psychology, as well as key figures, movements, and schools of thought such as structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, and cognitive psychology. Students will analyze how historical contexts influenced the evolution of psychological theories and methodologies and will consider ongoing debates and paradigm shifts within the field. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of how psychology has become a diverse scientific discipline and its ongoing impact on society.
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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) Simultaneous discovery favors which view of history?
A)dynamic
B)personalistic
C)naturalistic
D)recurrent
E)syncopated
Answer: C
Q2) The authors of your textbook argue that the formal study of the history of psychology is the most systematic way to integrate the areas and issues that constitute modern psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The data of history are most accurately depicted or described as ____.
A)public records
B)private records
C)eyewitness testimony
D)recollections
E)data fragments
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Philosophical Influences on Psychology
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Q1) Which British empiricist championed women's rights and condemned the unequal status of women?
A)David Hartley
B)John Stuart Mill
C)James Mill
D)David Hume
E)John Locke
Answer: B
Q2) For Descartes,the application of mathematical principles to sciences would produce
A)theorems of human nature
B)laws of physics
C)principles
D)religious conviction
E)certainty of knowledge
Answer: E
Q3) James Mill denied that people had free will.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Physiological Influences on Psychology
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Q1) Electrical stimulation as a method of mapping the cerebral cortex was introduced by
A)Galvani and Aldini
B)Flourens and Hall
C)Gall and Spurzheim
D)Broca and Kinnebrook
E)Fritsch and Hitzig
Answer: E
Q2) The modern notion of subliminal perception rests on the idea that the threshold of perception or consciousness can be determined.The first experimental illustration of psychological threshold was demonstrated by ____.
A)Helmholtz
B)Weber
C)Fechner
D)Wundt
E)Freud
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The New Psychology
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Q1) For Wundt,the subject matter of experimental psychology was consciousness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ."Psychology is the science of the facts of experience as dependent on the experiencing person," according to whom?
A)Wundt
B)Brentano
C)Stumpf
D)Külpe
E)Ebbinghaus
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"
Q4) Discuss the differences between Wundt and Külpe,and describe some ramifications of those differences on contemporary psychology.
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Chapter 5: Structuralism
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Q1) In the Original Source Material from A Textbook of Psychology,Titchener described the difference between ____.
A)independent and dependent experience
B)immediate and mediate experience
C)structuralism and Wundtian psychology
D)truth and fiction
E)inspection and introspection
Q2) By the 1920s the term used by Titchener for his system of psychology was ____.
A)functionalism
B)voluntarism
C)existential
D)behaviorism
E)introspection
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 6: Functionalism: Antecedent Influences
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Q1) The aim of the research at the Anthropometric Laboratory was to assess ____.
A)developmental trends over the lifespan
B)the sensory capacities of humans
C)the collective mental resources of the British people
D)the correlates of intelligence among eminent men
E)eugenics policy development
Q2) Quetelet was the first to apply statistical methods to the examination of individual differences.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was the first to show that human mental characteristics followed a normal distribution?
A)Pearson
B)Quetelet
C)Huarte
D)Galton
E)Cattell
Q4) The first experimental examination of associations was by Wundt and Ebbinghaus.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Functionalism: Development and Founding
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Q1) James's position on determinism versus free will can be characterized by which of the following?
A)Free will is an illusion to me.
B)My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
C)This ego is not master of its fate.
D)We are slaves to our biology.
E)If one believes in free will,one is free to so believe.
Q2) According to James,the value or worth of beliefs can be evaluated in terms of ____.
A)the spiritual basis for a belief
B)the habitual nature of a belief
C)whether it works or not
D)its adaptive value
E)its effect on emotions
Q3) The first American Ph.D.in psychology was earned by ____.
A)Titchener
B)James
C)Hall
D)Cattell
E)Yerkes
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Chapter 8: Applied Psychology: the Legacy of Functionalism
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Q1) The team approach to the assessment and treatment of mental disorders was introduced by ____.
A)Healey
B)Münsterberg
C)Witmer
D)Beers
E)Anna Freud
Q2) The two most profound influences on the growth of clinical psychology as a specialty were ____.
A)World War I and World War II
B)World War II and the VA hospital system
C)the works of Binet and Freud
D)Witmer's work and the world wars
E)the influx of German psychologists in the 1930s and the VA hospital system
Q3) It is the prevailing and undisputed opinion that intelligence tests are culturally biased.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss Münsterberg's contributions to I/O psychology,psychotherapy,and forensic psychology.
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Chapter 9: Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences
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Q1) More than any other researcher in psychology before him,Pavlov attempted to ____.
A)eliminate sources of error from his studies.
B)implement the experimental method.
C)reject all responses that were not objectively observable.
D)analyze S-R units into their component elements.
E)eliminate sources of error from his studies and implement the experimental method.
Q2) Thorndike used the phrase "trial and accidental success."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Pavlov's work illustrated the study of higher mental processes in ____.
A)psychical terms
B)physical terms
C)physiological terms
D)reinforcement
Q4) The founder of positivism was Comte.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the ways in which functional psychology influenced behaviorism.
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Chapter 10: Behaviorism: the Beginnings
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Q1) Watson predicted that the laws of behavior would be identified when ____.
A)behaviors were reduced to their basic S-R units
B)the stimulus elements could be perfectly controlled
C)the smallest elements of responses were discovered
D)the response elements could be perfectly predicted
E)Both B and D are correct.
Q2) McDougall believed that human behavior ____.
A)derives from innate tendencies
B)could not be studied
C)was a function of God's will
D)could not be predicted or controlled
E)was solely determined by the environment
Q3) According to Watson,the three fundamental emotions displayed by infants were ____.
A)fear,sadness,and love
B)fear,rage,and sadness
C)fear,rage,and love
D)fear,loneliness,and rage
E)loneliness,rage,and love
Q4) Describe Lashley's contributions to behaviorism.
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Chapter 11: Behaviorism: After the Founding
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Q1) Bandura argues that what changes a person's behavior is ____.
A)what the organism thinks the schedule of reinforcement is
B)the actual schedule of reinforcement
C)their free will
D)the result of his or her intelligence
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q2) Operationism was ____.
A)a major characteristic of neobehaviorism
B)intended to rid psychology of pseudo-problems
C)intended to make the language of science more objective and precise
D)All of the choices are correct.
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q3) Thorndike and Hull agreed that,in order for learning to occur,the organism must ____.
A)form cognitive maps of the situation
B)represent the environment in terms of mental elements
C)have a need state
D)experience reinforcement occurring after a response
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q4) Describe,compare,and contrast the three stages of behaviorism.
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Chapter 12: gestalt Psychology
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Q1) Unfortunately,Gestalt psychology was unable to extend its work beyond the area of perception.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The leaders of the ____ immediately supported the Nazi regime and proclaimed the "evil influence" of the Jews.
A)Gestalt movement
B)German Psychological Society
C)Anti-Defamation League
D)None of the choices are correct.
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q3) Yerkes' discovery of insight was labeled "ideational learning."
A)True
B)False
Q4) From the Gestalt perspective,insight requires that one ____.
A)perceive the relationships between the components of the problem or issue
B)deconstruct the component elements of a problem
C)be able to distinguish the figure from the ground
D)have familiarity with at least half of the components of the issue or problem
E)have some capacity for communication either directly or through sign language
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Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis: the Beginnings
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Q1) Fear of being the victim of a violent crime while visiting a gang-infested area in the United States is an example of ____.
A)libido
B)thanatos
C)neurotic anxiety
D)moral anxiety
E)objective anxiety
Q2) The attitude toward sex in the Vienna of the Victorian era was ____.
A)permissive and open
B)publicly repressed but actually fraught with sexual perversions
C)publicly repressed but marked by an incomparable degree of child prostitution
D)permissive only in the middle class
E)repressive only among the aristocracy
Q3) Freud posited that there are three types of instincts: the life instinct,the death instinct,and the sex instinct.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Breuer,not Freud,coined the phrase "the talking cure".
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Psychoanalysis: After the Founding
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Q1) The personal experience of a theorist can impact his or her choice of central personality concepts.A central concept for Adler was inferiority feelings while Horney concentrated on basic anxiety.Define and describe each concept and discuss possible links between it and the life circumstances and experiences of the theorist who proposed it.
Q2) In the research on the characteristics of happy people,the happiest people ____.
A)have a lot of money
B)are physically attractive
C)have mediocre health
D)are unmarried
E)are more successful and productive
Q3) Play therapy,a standard technique of contemporary psychotherapy with children,was introduced by ____.
A)Melanie Klein
B)Anna Freud
C)Karen Horney
D)Helene Deutsch
E)Erik Erikson
Q4) Describe the evolution and antecedent influences on humanistic psychology.What is its current status in psychology?
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Chapter 15: Contemporary Developments in Psychology
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Q1) The Turing test was one way to judge whether a computer could think.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The point of Searle's Chinese room problem was to show that ____.
A)Chinese is a difficult language to learn
B)machines and humans use the same thinking strategies
C)machines can and do display "thinking"
D)machines can pass the Turing test and still not be "thinking"
E)None of the choices are correct.
Q3) Scientists can use machines,such as MRI and PET,to produce images of what is going on while someone "thinks."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bridgman,the father of operationism,argued that introspection is necessary.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cognitive psychology is showing the signs of beginning to decline as a school of thought.
A)True
B)False
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