PSYC 375 FINAL EXAM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) PRACTICE QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
The results of the experiment run by Tolman and Honzik in 1930
indicated that: - ---Answers---animals learned constantly, but only
translated what had been learned into behaviour when there was an
incentive to do so
According to Guthrie, the association between stimuli and a/an ___ is
formed in one trial. - ---Answers---movement
Who attempted to formalise Guthrie's theory? - ---Answers---both
Voeks and Estes
Skinner was all of the following except
-a positivist
-a logical positivist
-a radical behaviourist
-a descriptive behaviourist - ---Answers---a logical positivist
Tolman's influence on contemporary psychology can be clearly seen in
the work of the - ---Answers---information-processing psychologists
h
While at Harvard, Tolman learned from Holt and Perry that the ___
aspects of behaviour could be studied without sacrificing scientific
objectivity - ---Answers---purposive
Masters and his colleagues argue that: - ---Answers---institutions
with token economies are unnatural and ineffective
, Which of the following exemplifies molar behaviour?
-salivating when a bell is rung
-shopping for food in a grocery store
-a child hiding from a stranger
-both shopping for food in a grocery store and a child hiding from a
stranger - ---Answers---both shopping for food in a grocery store and
a child hiding from a stranger
Concerning the mind-body problem, Skinner was a(n): - ---Answers---
physical monist
All of the following were considered positive contributions of gestalt
psychology except: - ---Answers---it impacted clinical psychology
Insightful learning has several characteristics. Which one of the
following is not one of the characteristics? - ---Answers---a principle
gained by insight is not readily applied to other problems
According to Lewin, ___ believed that uniqueness (individual
differences) was a distortion caused by external forces interfering with
an organism's natural growth tendencies - ---Answers---Aristotle
When stimuli are close together, they tend to be grouped together as a
perceptual unit. This exemplifies the Gestalt principle of: - ---Answers-
--proximity
Who believed that a search for a one-to-one correspondence between
a sensory event and a mental event was doomed to failure? - ---
Answers---both Kant and the gestaltists
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
The results of the experiment run by Tolman and Honzik in 1930
indicated that: - ---Answers---animals learned constantly, but only
translated what had been learned into behaviour when there was an
incentive to do so
According to Guthrie, the association between stimuli and a/an ___ is
formed in one trial. - ---Answers---movement
Who attempted to formalise Guthrie's theory? - ---Answers---both
Voeks and Estes
Skinner was all of the following except
-a positivist
-a logical positivist
-a radical behaviourist
-a descriptive behaviourist - ---Answers---a logical positivist
Tolman's influence on contemporary psychology can be clearly seen in
the work of the - ---Answers---information-processing psychologists
h
While at Harvard, Tolman learned from Holt and Perry that the ___
aspects of behaviour could be studied without sacrificing scientific
objectivity - ---Answers---purposive
Masters and his colleagues argue that: - ---Answers---institutions
with token economies are unnatural and ineffective
, Which of the following exemplifies molar behaviour?
-salivating when a bell is rung
-shopping for food in a grocery store
-a child hiding from a stranger
-both shopping for food in a grocery store and a child hiding from a
stranger - ---Answers---both shopping for food in a grocery store and
a child hiding from a stranger
Concerning the mind-body problem, Skinner was a(n): - ---Answers---
physical monist
All of the following were considered positive contributions of gestalt
psychology except: - ---Answers---it impacted clinical psychology
Insightful learning has several characteristics. Which one of the
following is not one of the characteristics? - ---Answers---a principle
gained by insight is not readily applied to other problems
According to Lewin, ___ believed that uniqueness (individual
differences) was a distortion caused by external forces interfering with
an organism's natural growth tendencies - ---Answers---Aristotle
When stimuli are close together, they tend to be grouped together as a
perceptual unit. This exemplifies the Gestalt principle of: - ---Answers-
--proximity
Who believed that a search for a one-to-one correspondence between
a sensory event and a mental event was doomed to failure? - ---
Answers---both Kant and the gestaltists
