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Test Bank for Psychology Themes And Variations 3rd Canadian
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By Weiten

All Chapters (1-16) | Q&As Verified| Grade A+ Assured




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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 The Evolution of Psychology ............................................................................ 3
Chapter 2 The Research Enterprise in Psychology ..................................................... 58
Chapter 3 The Biological Bases of Behaviour ............................................................ 111
Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception ......................................................................... 167
Chapter 5 Variations in Consciousness ..................................................................... 219
Chapter 6 Learning ................................................................................................... 274
Chapter 7 Human Memory ........................................................................................ 330
Chapter 8 Language and Thought ............................................................................. 387
Chapter 9 Intelligence and Psychological Testing ..................................................... 443
Chapter 10 Motivation and Emotion ......................................................................... 501
Chapter 11 Human Development across the Life Span ............................................. 553
Chapter 12 Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment .................................... 611
Chapter 13 Social Behaviour ..................................................................................... 664
Chapter 14 Stress, Coping, and Health ...................................................................... 723
Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders ......................................................................... 775
Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders ................................................... 831




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Chapter 1 The Evolution of Psychology

MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following individuals is responsible for establishing psychology as an
independent discipline with its own subject matter?
a. Wilhelm Wundt
b. G. Stanley Hall
c. Rene Descartes
d. William James
CORRECT ANSWER A PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember
2. According to historians, when and where did the “birth” of psychology occur?
a. 1859 in England
b. 1879 in Germany
c. 1883 in the United States
d. 1909 in Austria
CORRECT ANSWER B PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember
3. According to Wilhelm Wundt, what was the focus of psychology?
a. to understand functions of behaviour
b. to understand unconscious motivation
c. the scientific study of observable behaviour
d. the scientific study of conscious experience
CORRECT ANSWER D PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember
4. What did Wilhelm Wundt believe the focus of psychology should be?
a. studying stimulus-response associations
b. questioning the nature of existence
c. examining people’s awareness of their immediate experience
d. determining people’s unconscious motivation for behaviour
CORRECT ANSWER C PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Higher order
5. Who established the first psychological research laboratory in the United States and
launched that country’s first psychology journal?
a. William James


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b. G. Stanley Hall
c. John Watson
d. Edward Titchener
CORRECT ANSWER B PTS: 1 REF: p. 5 BLM: Remember


6. Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association (APA)?
a. G. Stanley Hall
b. John Watson
c. William James
d. Sigmund Freud
CORRECT ANSWER A PTS: 1 REF: p. 5 BLM: Remember
7. What is the world’s largest organization devoted to the advancement of psychology?
a. Psychologists of North America
b. Western Psychological Society
c. World Psychology Organization
d. American Psychological Association
CORRECT ANSWER D PTS: 1 REF: p. 5 BLM: Remember
8. What were the first two major schools of psychology?
a. functionalism and behaviourism
b. behaviourism and psychoanalytic theory
c. behaviourism and Gestalt psychology
d. structuralism and functionalism
CORRECT ANSWER D PTS: 1 REF: p. 6 BLM: Remember
9. Which school of psychology focused on identifying and examining the fundamental
components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images?
a. humanism
b. structuralism
c. functionalism
d. behaviourism
CORRECT ANSWER B PTS: 1 REF: p. 6 BLM: Remember
10. Which type of psychologist was most likely to use the technique of introspection?
a. structuralist


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