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1. Psychology is universally defined as the scientific study of observable behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
2. René Descartes believed that the brain and the mind are fundamentally the same thing.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Today, most psychologists believe that the mind and brain are separate physical entities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
4. Broca's research was consistent with Hobbes's philosophical position that mental
processes were grounded in
the brain.
a. True
b. False
,ANSWER: True
5. Broca's research was consistent with Descartes's philosophical position that mental
processes were grounded
in the brain.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Philosophical empiricists believe that certain knowledge is innate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
7. The classical Greek philosophers tested their theories using the scientific method.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
8. Wilhelm Wundt first used reaction time to measure the speed of a nervous impulse.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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9. Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. Helmholtz developed introspection as a tool for understanding the structure of
consciousness.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
11. Wilhelm Wundt believed that consciousness could be broken down into its component
parts.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. Wilhelm Wundt was most interested in how consciousness is an adaptive feature of the
human existence.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
, 13. William James brought Wundt's structuralist school of psychology to the United States.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. Introspection as a scientific method failed because it did not generate replicable
observations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. The structuralist approach gradually faded, mostly because of the inadequacies of
psychoanalysis.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
16. Functionalists depended on introspection to study subjective observations of personal
experience.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
17. William James did not believe that consciousness could be broken down into basic
elements.
a. True
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1. Psychology is universally defined as the scientific study of observable behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
2. René Descartes believed that the brain and the mind are fundamentally the same thing.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Today, most psychologists believe that the mind and brain are separate physical entities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
4. Broca's research was consistent with Hobbes's philosophical position that mental
processes were grounded in
the brain.
a. True
b. False
,ANSWER: True
5. Broca's research was consistent with Descartes's philosophical position that mental
processes were grounded
in the brain.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Philosophical empiricists believe that certain knowledge is innate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
7. The classical Greek philosophers tested their theories using the scientific method.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
8. Wilhelm Wundt first used reaction time to measure the speed of a nervous impulse.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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9. Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. Helmholtz developed introspection as a tool for understanding the structure of
consciousness.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
11. Wilhelm Wundt believed that consciousness could be broken down into its component
parts.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. Wilhelm Wundt was most interested in how consciousness is an adaptive feature of the
human existence.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
, 13. William James brought Wundt's structuralist school of psychology to the United States.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. Introspection as a scientific method failed because it did not generate replicable
observations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. The structuralist approach gradually faded, mostly because of the inadequacies of
psychoanalysis.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
16. Functionalists depended on introspection to study subjective observations of personal
experience.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
17. William James did not believe that consciousness could be broken down into basic
elements.
a. True
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