Psyc 210 Final Exam Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
According to Adler, traumatic experiences are
Answer:
interpreted in any way that suits a person's purposes
Question 2:
According to Adler, which of the following describes the conceptual development of a child?
A. lifestyle -> worldview -> guiding fictions
B. worldview -> guiding fictions -> lifestyle
C. guiding fictions -> worldview -> lifestyle
D. lifestyle -> guiding fictions -> worldview
Answer:
b. worldview -> guiding fictions -> lifestyle
Question 3:
According to Freud, what a dream appears to be about (e.g., climbing stairs) is its _________ content
and what it is really about (e.g sexual intercourse) is its _______content
Answer:
manifest; latent
Question 4:
According to Freud what was a great shock in history that was delivered to the collective human ego?
Answer:
Copernicus' discovery that the earth isn't the centre of the universe
Question 5:
According to Jung, in our ___________, we retain experiences of our ancestors, animal and human.
Answer:
collective unconscious
,Question 6:
what we experience consciously is sensory information after it has been acted on by force fields in the
brain
Answer:
According to the Gestalt psychologists
Question 7:
According to the textbook, Watson's primary contribution to psychology was his
Answer:
advocacy of a science of behaviour that was objective in methods and language
Question 8:
According to Watson, the three fundamental emotions displayed by infants are
Answer:
fear, rage, and love
Question 9:
According to your professor,
A. Skinner embraced the doctrine of materialism
B. Skinner embraced the doctrine of mechanism
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
a. Skinner embraced the doctrine of materialism
Question 10:
According to your Professor:
A. Skinner's brand of behaviourism peaked in the 1980s and declined after Skinners death in 1990
B. Skinner was opposed to the doctrine of operationism
C. Both a and b
, D. Neither a or b
Answer:
b. Skinner was opposed to the doctrine of operationism
Question 11:
According to your Professor:
A. Skinner was opposed to all theory
B. Skinners purely descriptive behaviourism has been called, with good reason, the "empty organism"
approach
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
d. Neither a or b
Question 12:
According to your professor, which of the following statements from the textbook is misleading?
A. "Although Thorndike developed his theory in a more objective frame of reference, he continued to
invoke mental processes"
B. "The works of Thorndike and Ivan Pavlov provide an example of independent simultaneous
discoveries. Thorndike developed his law of effect in 1898, and Pavlov proposed a similar law of
reinforcement in 1902"
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
c. Both a and b
Question 13:
According to your professor, which statement in the textbook is deceptive?
A. "Adler's theories were warmly received by those who were dissatisfied with Freud's image of a
human personality being dominated by sexual forces and governed by childhood experiences."
Question 1:
According to Adler, traumatic experiences are
Answer:
interpreted in any way that suits a person's purposes
Question 2:
According to Adler, which of the following describes the conceptual development of a child?
A. lifestyle -> worldview -> guiding fictions
B. worldview -> guiding fictions -> lifestyle
C. guiding fictions -> worldview -> lifestyle
D. lifestyle -> guiding fictions -> worldview
Answer:
b. worldview -> guiding fictions -> lifestyle
Question 3:
According to Freud, what a dream appears to be about (e.g., climbing stairs) is its _________ content
and what it is really about (e.g sexual intercourse) is its _______content
Answer:
manifest; latent
Question 4:
According to Freud what was a great shock in history that was delivered to the collective human ego?
Answer:
Copernicus' discovery that the earth isn't the centre of the universe
Question 5:
According to Jung, in our ___________, we retain experiences of our ancestors, animal and human.
Answer:
collective unconscious
,Question 6:
what we experience consciously is sensory information after it has been acted on by force fields in the
brain
Answer:
According to the Gestalt psychologists
Question 7:
According to the textbook, Watson's primary contribution to psychology was his
Answer:
advocacy of a science of behaviour that was objective in methods and language
Question 8:
According to Watson, the three fundamental emotions displayed by infants are
Answer:
fear, rage, and love
Question 9:
According to your professor,
A. Skinner embraced the doctrine of materialism
B. Skinner embraced the doctrine of mechanism
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
a. Skinner embraced the doctrine of materialism
Question 10:
According to your Professor:
A. Skinner's brand of behaviourism peaked in the 1980s and declined after Skinners death in 1990
B. Skinner was opposed to the doctrine of operationism
C. Both a and b
, D. Neither a or b
Answer:
b. Skinner was opposed to the doctrine of operationism
Question 11:
According to your Professor:
A. Skinner was opposed to all theory
B. Skinners purely descriptive behaviourism has been called, with good reason, the "empty organism"
approach
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
d. Neither a or b
Question 12:
According to your professor, which of the following statements from the textbook is misleading?
A. "Although Thorndike developed his theory in a more objective frame of reference, he continued to
invoke mental processes"
B. "The works of Thorndike and Ivan Pavlov provide an example of independent simultaneous
discoveries. Thorndike developed his law of effect in 1898, and Pavlov proposed a similar law of
reinforcement in 1902"
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a or b
Answer:
c. Both a and b
Question 13:
According to your professor, which statement in the textbook is deceptive?
A. "Adler's theories were warmly received by those who were dissatisfied with Freud's image of a
human personality being dominated by sexual forces and governed by childhood experiences."
