History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 4

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Question 1:

Herbart succeeded to Kant’s position at the University of Könisberg, but he differed from Kant by believing that ________.
a) psychology was not preparadigmatic
b) psychology was preparadigmatic
c) mathematics was not applicable to psychological events
d) mathematics was applicable to psychological events

Question 2:

Herbart used the term ________ to refer to the set of ideas that ________ ideas consistent with it.
a) apperceptive mass; assimilates
b) assimilates; apperceptive mass
c) apperceptive; rejects
d) assimilates; rejects

Question 3:

Which of Herbart’s ‘five ways’ states that once something is understood, the student should have some way to apply that knowledge?
a) Application
b) Preparation
c) Presentation
d) Association

Question 4:

Fechner assumed there was an intimate relationship between ________ and ________.
a) mental events; religion
b) conciousness; events in the nervous system
c) the mental; the physical
d) Both B and C.

Question 5:

Delta I over I equals K is the formula for what law?
a) Psychophysics
b) Quantity objection
c) Just noticeable difference
d) Colour perception

Question 6:

Experimental aesthetics is the psychology of ________.
a) the environment
b) beauty
c) artistic ability
d) kitsch

Question 7:

Helmholtz described nature in ________ terms.
a) subordinate
b) fatal
c) mechanistic
d) nervous

Question 8:

The Young-Helmholtz theory of colour perception is also known by what name?
a) Trichromatic theory of colour perception
b) Opponent process theory of colour perception
c) Colour blindness
d) Law of progressions and pathologies

Question 9:

Hering formulated a competing theory to ________’s theory of colour perception.
a) Ladd-Franklin
b) Herbart
c) Fechner
d) Helmholtz

Question 10:

Who completed but did not receive their doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University?
a) Helmholtz
b) Hering
c) Broca
d) Ladd-Franklin

Question 11:

What did Gall and Spruzheim promote?
a) Broca’s aphasia
b) Trichromatic theory of colour perception
c) Phrenology
d) Eugenics

Question 12:

A patient who can speak but cannot understand what is being said to them may have damage in what area of the brain?
a) Gall’s area
b) Wernicke’s area
c) Spurzheim’s area
d) Broca’s area

Question 13:

What term represents the view that society should encourage the selective breeding of humans?
a) Apperception
b) Social Darwinism
c) Galton’s law
d) Eugenics

Question 14:

In Galton’s memory studies, his sample consisted of ________.
a) himself
b) his research assistants
c) members of the public
d) his cousin Darwin

Question 15:

Spencer’s book First Principles focused on what topic?
a) Survival of the fittest
b) The law of evolution
c) Social Darwinism
d) Eugenics

Question 16:

Herbart was interested both in what went on above and below the threshold of consciousness.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The concept of apperception originated with Leibniz.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The equation for the JND should be read ‘I over K equals delta I’.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Helmholtz estimated that nerves transmit impulses at a speed of 100 feet per second.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Hering invented what came to be known as the trichromatic theory of colour perception.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

A colour solid can explain colour blindness.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Ladd-Franklin based her theory on evidence stemming from the localization of function research.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Damage to Broca’s area results in the loss of the ability to express ideas by means of speech.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Galton believed that genius was a hereditary characteristic.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Regression towards the mean occurs as a mathematical necessity whenever two variables are perfectly correlated.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 4