History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 11

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Question 1:

Virtually every student who majors in psychology must take a course in ________.
a) behaviourism
b) research methods
c) cognitive psychology
d) humanism

Question 2:

Which term best describes the idea that the meaning of a statement is its method of verification?
a) Dispositional concepts
b) Logicial positivism
c) Protocol sentences
d) Verification principle

Question 3:

What type of concepts can be falsified?
a) Operational
b) Verification
c) Dispositional
d) Protocol

Question 4:

The score a person obtains on an intelligence test could be considered ________.
a) a dispositional concept
b) an operational definition
c) a definition
d) a dictionary definition

Question 5:

Who evaluated the claim of a woman who declared she could discriminate whether milk or tea had been added to a cup first?
a) Burt
b) Koch
c) Fisher
d) Thurstone

Question 6:

What level of significance was adopted in psychology despite being completely arbitrary?
a) 5 per cent
b) 10 per cent
c) 1 per cent
d) 15 per cent

Question 7:

Which statement best describes the relationship between correlational and experimental methods?
a) They have the same underlying principles
b) They have radically different underlying principles
c) They have similar underlying principles
d) They are nothing alike

Question 8:

Who played a central role in the development of correlational methods?
a) Fisher
b) Spearman
c) Cronbach
d) Thurstone

Question 9:

What does ‘g’ represent?
a) General behaviour
b) Mental energy
c) General intelligence
d) Both B and C.

Question 10:

According to your textbook, what is one of the reason’s the Burt scandal is important in the history of psychology?
a) It warns psychologists to cover their tracks
b) It teaches us about what happens when someone’s reputation is called into question
c) It scares future researchers so they won’t lie
d) Both A and C.

Question 11:

Thurstone used what kind of techniques at the University of Chicago?
a) Qualitative
b) Hypothesis testing
c) Correlational
d) Factor-analysis

Question 12:

Who made calls to unify the discipline of psychology?
a) Burt
b) Carnap
c) Cronbach
d) Koch

Question 13:

In which culture did counting and measuring become a speciality to an extent that was never approached by other cultures?
a) European
b) North American
c) African
d) Soviet

Question 14:

Which of the following is an important aspect of qualitative research?
a) Falsifiability
b) Correlational methods
c) Logical positivism
d) Discursive psychology

Question 15:

Aside from doing the research, what does your textbook highlight as another important part of the research process?
a) Operationalization
b) Falsifiability
c) Publishing
d) Verification

Question 16:

The search for the proper scientific method for psychology has been a part of its history since at least the twentieth century.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The verification principle states that the meaning of a statement is its method of verification.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

In his tea-tasting experiment, Fisher presented the cups to the participants in random order.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Clever Hans is well known in the history of psychology for using careful observation and experimental procedure to show how a horse could answer questions by tapping his hoof.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The two-factor theory of intelligence is a hierarchical model.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Spearman found himself the centre of a scandal after his work was reviewed by Kamin.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Thurstone’s primarily mental abilities were verbal, number, spatial, word fluency, memory, and reasoning.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Cronbach’s call for a unified discipline was only partially successful.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

The one thing quantitative and qualitative methods share in common is the testing of a null hypothesis.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

James was famous for his quantitative descriptions of such psychologically important phenomena as the stream of consciousness and the self.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 11