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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 8

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Question 1:


a) Cornell
b) Leipzig
c) Chicago
d) Toronto

Question 2:


a) Thorndike
b) Terman
c) Taylor
d) Titchener

Question 3:


a) Attitude
b) Affection
c) Aptitude
d) Anxiety

Question 4:


a) learning meditation
b) paying attention to their thoughts
c) the stimulus error
d) Both B and C.

Question 5:


a) Titchener
b) Angell
c) Dewey
d) Yerkes

Question 6:


a) Structuralism
b) Psychophysical parallelism
c) Progressive education
d) Functionalism

Question 7:


a) stimulus; emotion
b) response; stimulus
c) stimulus; response
d) stimulus; thought

Question 8:


a) Children have already developed their cognitive abilities.
b) Children do not have cognitive abilities.
c) Children are developing their cognitive abilities.
d) Children are like adults, only smaller.

Question 9:


a) Psychology should focus on mental testing.
b) Psychology must adopt a structuralist approach.
c) Psychological research can be conducted outside of the laboratory.
d) Psychological research must be restricted to the laboratory.

Question 10:


a) Structuralism
b) Stimulus
c) Scientific
d) Set

Question 11:


a) A questionnaire
b) Dynamometer pressure
c) Judgment of time
d) Bisection of a line

Question 12:


a) Simon
b) Woodworth
c) Terman
d) Yerkes

Question 13:


a) Composite age
b) Chronological age
c) Chronometrical age
d) Continous age

Question 14:


a) Romanes
b) Gilbreth
c) Taylor
d) Mayo

Question 15:


a) To be paradigmatic of what’s happening when any animal (with the exception of humans) learns anything
b) To be paradigmatic of what’s happening when any animal (including humans) learns anything
c) To be unrepresentative of human behaviour
d) To be ungeneralizable beyond felines

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False

Question 22:


a) True
b) False

Question 23:


a) True
b) False

Question 24:


a) True
b) False

Question 25:


a) True
b) False