Psychology Capstone Seminar
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The Psychology Capstone Seminar provides students with an integrative learning experience that synthesizes key concepts, theories, and research methodologies from their undergraduate psychology coursework. Through guided discussions, critical review of current topics, and collaborative projects, students will develop advanced analytical and communication skills. The seminar emphasizes the practical application of psychological knowledge, ethical considerations, and career exploration, culminating in a major project or presentation that demonstrates the students mastery of psychological science and its real-world implications.
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Pioneers of Psychology A History 4th Edition by Raymond E. Fancher
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Chapter 1: Foundational Ideas from Antiquity
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Q1) The ideas that young Descartes had at Ulm,which transformed his life and really started him on his vocation as a philosopher and scientist,were primarily about:
A) the reflex.
B) the mind-body dichotomy.
C) a method for obtaining knowledge.
D) the passions.
Answer: C
Q2) Galileo defined secondary qualities as:
A) qualities that do not reside inherently in matter, but arise only after the primary qualities impinge on the human senses.
B) qualities that reside inherently in matter, such as shape, quantity, and motion.
C) qualities that were the two properties of physical phenomena that could not be further analyzed or doubted.
D) qualities that are inherently innate.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Pioneering Philosophers of Mind:
Descartes,Locke,and Leibniz
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Q1) For Locke,the primary qualities of objects:
A) truly exist within the objects themselves.
B) are imposed on objects by our senses.
C) are contrary to Descartes' "simple natures."
D) are the foundation of complex ideas.
Answer: A
Q2) For Locke,the largest amount of human knowledge was of which type?
A) intuitive
B) demonstrative
C) sensitive
D) practical
Answer: C
Q3) Locke's initial purpose in writing his Essay Concerning Human Understanding was to discover:
A) how to evaluate differing religious doctrines.
B) what kind of correct knowledge the human mind was and was not capable of acquiring.
C) what kind of governmental system would produce the greatest general welfare.
D) what philosophical system was best supported by the new scientific research.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield
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Q1) Which of the following was the major technique used by Pierre Flourens in his attempts to refute phrenological theory?
A) experimental ablations from the brains of animals
B) careful observation of brain-injured human patients
C) observation of human patients recovering from brain surgery
D) electrical stimulation of different parts of animals' brains
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following assumptions was an error of Gall's in his phrenological theory?
A) Specific psychological functions may be localized in specific brain parts.
B) The shape of the skull accurately reflects the shape of the brain lying beneath.
C) The language function is localized near the front of the cortex.
D) all of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant
through the Gestalt Psychologists
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Q1) The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be reliably detected,used by Fechner as the "zero point" in his scale of subjective intensities,is called the:
A) logarithm.
B) absolute threshold.
C) phi phenomenon.
D) constant k.
Q2) To Helmholtz,the law of Conservation of Energy implied that:
A) all forms of energy are interchangeable varieties from a single reservoir, which cannot be increased or decreased.
B) vitalist theory was contrary to other natural laws.
C) there could be no perpetual motion machine.
D) all of the above
Q3) Helmholtz's attempt to measure the speed of the nervous impulse in human subjects:
A) gave consistent results almost identical with those for the frog's nerve.
B) helped introduce the "reaction time" method into psychology.
C) indicated that the speed was too fast to be measurable in humans.
D) both a and b above
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Chapter 5: Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology
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Q1) For Wundt,the most basic unit of thought is:
A) any word which expresses a distinct concept.
B) a "general impression" capable of being expressed by many different combinations of words.
C) a "train" of associated ideas.
D) an unconscious sensation.
Q2) Why was Wundt's landmark book Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)important?
A) It was the first genuine "textbook" describing under one cover several recent developments in the area of experimental psychology.
B) It focused attention on the originality and variety of Wundt's own experiments.
C) It introduced the work of early female psychologists.
D) both a and b above
Q3) Structuralism was an approach to experimental psychology that:
A) focused on the function of the mind rather than the biology of the brain.
B) focused on what the mind is rather than what the mind is for.
C) was completely in keeping with the Wundtian framework.
D) focused solely on physiology, omitting subjective introspection.
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Chapter 6: The Evolving Mind: Darwin and His Psychological Legacy
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Q1) A Victorian-era theory holding that the mainly non?European,"savage" peoples represented a distinctly different species of being was known as:
A) Social Darwinism.
B) Polygenism.
C) Monogenism.
D) Sociobiology.
Q2) Alfred Russel Wallace is known for which of the following?
A) independently developing the theory of evolution by natural selection and having a paper on it read jointly with one by Darwin in 1858
B) anticipating Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection by several years but neglecting to publish it
C) collaborating with Darwin on a paper describing the theory of evolution by natural selection, which was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858
D) plagiarizing much of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and presenting it as his own at a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858
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Chapter 7: Measuring the Mind: Galton and Individual Differences
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Q1) Which of the following has not been a problem in conducting a definitive study of separated identical twins?
A) finding twin pairs who were completely separated from each other at an early age
B) finding twin pairs reared randomly in environments representative of the full range of the general population
C) finding intelligence tests suitable for administration to close relatives
D) finding twin pairs who were not placed in randomly different adoptive environments
Q2) When there is a complete absence of a relationship between two variables,the regression line representing that relationship will be:
A) horizontal.
B) 45 degrees from the horizontal.
C) either a or b above
D) irregular and curved.
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Chapter 8: American Pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike
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Q1) Edward Thorndike's early research on learning involved which kinds of subjects?
A) human children
B) chickens and cats
C) white rats
D) all of the above
Q2) G.Stanley Hall advocated which of the following approaches in his theory of child development?
A) a "structuralist" view, that the child passes through several distinct cognitive stages
B) a "recapitulationist" view, that individual development parallels the evolution of the species
C) a "functional" view, that the child progresses via trial-and-error learning experiences
D) a "Freudian" view, that the child passes through several sexually oriented stages
Q3) Which the following was not one of James's eminent students?
A) G. S. Hall
B) Mary Whiton Calkins
C) Edward Thorndike
D) James Roland Angell
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Chapter 9: Psychology as the Science of Behavior:
Pavlov,Watson,and Skinner
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Q1) In Pavlov's theory,"irradiation" refers to:
A) an ultraviolet light sometimes used as a conditioned stimulus.
B) a technique to ensure his surgical operations were performed antiseptically.
C) the neural mechanism causing muscular tremors in some experimental neuroses.
D) a wave spreading excitation or inhibition over the surface of the brain.
Q2) Edward Chase Tolman was known for his promotion of:
A) mechanistic behaviorism .
B) purposive behaviorism.
C) latent learning.
D) both b and c above
Q3) A professor of John B.Watson's at Chicago,whose theories he came to disagree with strongly,was:
A) Ivan Pavlov.
B) Jacques Loeb.
C) John Dewey.
D) Wilhelm Wundt.
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Chapter 10: Social Influence and Social Psychology: From
Mesmer to Milgram and Beyond
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Q1) An incorrect implication of Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was that:
A) the secret of hypnosis lies in the power of the hypnotist or magnetist.
B) illness is caused by disaligned magnetic fields in the body.
C) some people are natural healers because of their magnetic personalities.
D) all of the above
Q2) According to Le Bon,hopes of achieving lasting international harmony are:
A) good, because scientific understanding of group behavior will make mutual understanding easier.
B) bad, because crowd behavior is essentially unpredictable.
C) uncertain, because they depend on the particular values of the leaders who happen to seize control.
D) bad, because the unconscious racial ideas of different national groups are unlikely to be recognized and dealt with.
Q3) Le Bon recommended that crowd leaders make use of which of the following practices or attitudes to maximize their effectiveness?
A) sincerity, fervor, affirmation
B) repetition, enthusiasm, effective timing of appeals
C) affirmation, repetition, pre-placing of followers in the crowd
D) reason, sincerity, effective timing of appeals
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Chapter 11: Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its
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Q1) Freud's attitudes and writings on women were both controversial and paradoxical because:
A) he believed that men had weaker superegos than women, but also believed that men could be better psychoanalysts than women.
B) he believed that men and women had similar innate developmental processes, but that environmental forces and culture then caused women to have weaker superegos .
C) he believed that women had stronger superegos than men but despite this he supported his daughter's wish to become a psychoanalyst.
D) he believed that women had weaker superegos than men, but also supported their entry into the profession of psychoanalysis.
Q2) Freud's conception of the mind implies that the best adjustment one can hope to make to the human condition is to:
A) effect reasonable compromises among inherently conflicting demands.
B) undo most repressions so the instincts can be more fully gratified.
C) learn to get along without childish pleasures.
D) adjust one's values so they are in accord with one's society.
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Chapter 12: Psychology Gets "Personality":
Allport,Maslow,and the Broadening Field
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Q1) William Stern promoted a(n)___________ psychology where a central focus was on ____________.
A) social; the behavior of individuals in groups
B) nomothetic; the construction of personality tests
C) personalistic; the individual person
D) analytical; uncovering the collective unconscious
Q2) Gordon Allport identified and promoted which of the following pairs of contrasting research styles in personality?
A) monothetic and pluralistic
B) nomothetic and idiosyncratic
C) idiographic and idiosyncratic
D) nomothetic and idiographic
Q3) The term for Gordon Allport's notion that although motives may originate in childhood,they may be maintained or even strengthened in the mature personality because they have become reinforcing or rewarding in their own right,is:
A) autonomous ego functioning.
B) the contact hypothesis.
C) relational individuality.
D) functional autonomy of motives.
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Chapter 13: The Developing Mind: Binet,Piaget,and the Study of Intelligence
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Q1) After observing and comparing the behavior and test responses of his two daughters he characterized them as:
A) the "observer" and the "imaginer."
B) the "scientist" and the "artist."
C) the "introvert" and the "extrovert."
D) the "thinker" and the "feeler."
Q2) What did Catherine Cox's biographical study of historical geniuses suggest?
A) Many of them were "late bloomers" with relatively undistinguished childhoods.
B) Most of them came from privileged backgrounds.
C) If tests had been available, all would have achieved high IQs in childhood.
D) both b and c above
Q3) Piaget's work and theories had major impact on the development of all of the following areas except:
A) Cognitive psychology.
B) Educational psychology.
C) Developmental psychology.
D) Personality psychology.
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Chapter 14: Minds,Machines,and Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) The Lovelace Objection refers to:
A) Ada Lovelace's claim that Babbage stole her ideas.
B) Lovelace's view that computers could only do what they were programmed to do.
C) Lovelace's objection to Babbage creating the analytical engine and giving up his work on the difference engine.
D) Lovelace's claim that computers could never be used to compose music.
Q2) What philosophical implications did the creation of the Pascaline have?
A) It challenged Descartes' assertion that only humans had the capacity for rational calculation.
B) It called Locke's theories about associationism into question.
C) It undercut Hobbes's argument that human reasoning was a form of mathematical calculation.
D) It caused Leibniz to be troubled by the thought of a machine that could calculate numbers better than a human being.
Q3) An algorithm is appropriate to use when:
A) there is a need to limit "search space."
B) the number of possible solutions are relatively few in number.
C) one is trying to develop a chess-playing program.
D) one is trying to simulate human speech.
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Chapter 15: Applying Psychology: From the Witness Stand to the Workplace
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Q1) _______'s life story was the basis for the popular book and movie Cheaper by the Dozen.
A) Lillian Gilbreth
B) Naomi Norsworthy
C) Leta Stetter Hollingworth
D) Augusta Fox Bronner
Q2) The Boulder Conference is significant because of:
A) its role in the development of the scientist-practitioner model.
B) its role in the legitimization of psychology as a science.
C) its role in the creation of the American Psychological Association.
D) both b and c above
Q3) "Psychotechnics" refers to:
A) a technique Münsterberg used to detect lying in court cases.
B) the application of psychology to business and industry.
C) a technique used in creating motion studies.
D) Harry Hollingworth's technique used in the Coca Cola studies.
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