Introducing Psychology
Authors: Daniel Schacter, Daniel Gilbert
5TH Edition
,Chapter 01: True/False
1. René Descartes Believed That The Brain And The Mind Are Fundamentally The Same Thing.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
2. Philosophical Empiricists Believe That Certain Knowledge Is Innate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
3. Wilhelm Wundt First Used Reaction Time To Measure The Speed Of A Nervous Impulse.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
4. Wilhelm Wundt Opened The First Psychology Laboratory In Leipzig In 1879.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: A
5. Helmholtz Developed Introspection As A Tool For Understanding The Structure Of Consciousness.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
6. Wilhelm Wundt Believed That Consciousness Could Be Broken Down Into Its Component Parts.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: A
7. Wilhelm Wundt Was Most Interested In How Consciousness Is An Adaptive Feature Of The Human Existence.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
8. Functionalists Depended On Introspection To Study Subjective Observations Of Personal Experience.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
9. William James Did Not Believe That Consciousness Could Be Broken Down Into Basic Elements.
,a. True
, b. False
ANSWER: A
10. The Work Of William James Was Largely Influenced By Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: A
11. Freud Believed That Unconscious Mental Processes Shape Feelings, Thoughts, And Behaviors.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: A
12. The Goal Of Psychoanalysis Is To Banish Unwanted Feelings And Memories To The Unconscious.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
13. The Greatest Contribution Of Psychoanalysis Was The Research In Experimental Psychology That It Generated.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
14. Behaviorism Focused On The Scientific Study Of Objectively Observable Behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: A
15. Behavioral Measures Typically Are More Subjective Than Introspective Measures.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
16. Behaviorists Believe That The Behavior Of Nonhuman Animals—Not Human Behavior—Is The Proper
Subject Matter Of Psychology.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: B
17. The Founder Of Behaviorism Was William James.
a. True
b. False