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Question 1:

Which of the following approaches to history did Boring recognize?
a) Cyclical
b) Spiral
c) Feminist
d) Zeitgeist

Question 2:

The term used to represent the necessity of understanding the cultural context in history is known as ________.
a) Historiography
b) Zeitgeist
c) Social construction
d) Paradigm

Question 3:

Who has been associated with the new history of psychology?
a) Boring
b) Beauvoir
c) Furomoto
d) Kuhn

Question 4:

What did the new history of psychology emphasize?
a) The scientist as subjective
b) The scientist as neutral observer
c) The scientist as objective fact finder
d) The scientist as feminine

Question 5:

What term did Kuhn use to describe the set of fundamental beliefs that guide workers in a scientific discipline?
a) Clash
b) Revolution
c) The Structure of the Scientific Revolution
d) Paradigm

Question 6:

Which classic feminist text was written by Betty Friedan?
a) The Second Sex
b) The Feminine Mystique
c) ‘The history of psychology revisited’
d) She did not write a feminist text.

Question 7:

The psychology of women has been presented from a masculine perspective. What was one response to this problem?
a) Identification of distortions in psychology’s history
b) Emphasis placed on similarities between genders
c) Identification of contributions of women to psychology
d) An increase in the number of female authors on the topic

Question 8:

What did Evelyn Fox Keller argue we should be aware of?
a) The science-objectivity system
b) The science-gender system
c) The paradigm system
d) The social system of gender

Question 9:

The opposing tendencies of the exogenic and the endogenic are of interest to ________.
a) feminists
b) proponents of traditional history
c) historicists
d) social constructionists

Question 10:

According to your text, older histories may have been particularly guilty of ________.
a) historiography
b) essentialism
c) historicism
d) presentism

Question 11:

Who has the term Zeitgeist been attributed to?
a) Kuhn
b) Manuel
c) Goethe
d) Darwin

Question 12:

What shape did your textbook suggest as a useful symbol in describing the rediscovery of history?
a) Circle
b) Spiral
c) Cylinder
d) Square

Question 13:

Frank Manuel suggested that Ixion and Jacob be taken as personifications of the polarity of which two constructs?
a) Progressive vs. cyclical
b) Person vs. Zeitgeist
c) Spiral vs. Zeitgeist
d) Progressive vs. spiral

Question 14:

What did Kuhn mean by the term paradigm clash?
a) The set of beliefs that guide those in a scientific discipline
b) The development of established sciences has not been smooth
c) The change in a scientific discipline’s fundamental beliefs
d) The existence of fundamentally different ways of interpreting data

Question 15:

In arguing that the history of a discipline is both internal and external, Paul Bates implies that the study of a discipline is ________.
a) intermixed
b) interchanged
c) interdisciplinary
d) interlocked

Question 16:

The history of psychology is a static, unchanging discipline.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Historiography is the study of psychology’s history.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

It is impossible that psychology both progresses and is cyclical.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The new history of psychology encouraged presentism.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Kuhn argued that the development of science must be smooth.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

One of the contributions of feminism to the history of psychology has been the reconstruction of men’s experiences.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Exogenic means coming from outside.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Danziger argued that psychology has both socially constructed elements and empirical elements.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

A presentist history evaluates the past in terms of its relevance for the present.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Race is an example of a social construct.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 1