Psychology exam test quizzes and
answers graded A+
You are at a lecture about the history of psychology and the speaker states that Wilhelm Wundt's
theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychological theory. On what historical fact might the
speaker be basing her or his argument?
- ANS✅✅Structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments, so it is, at least
in part, emperical.
Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious mind:
A. was revolutionary because it was the first comprehensive explanation of human thought and
behavior.
B. resulted from discoveries about the human brain obtained by cadaver dissection.
C. is outdated and has no relevance for modern psychology.
D. focused entirely on human males' sex drive.
E. depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be consciously aware of the
memory. - ANS✅✅E. depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be
consciously aware of the memory.
In what way might a behaviorist disagree with a cognitive psychologist about the cause of
aggression? - ANS✅✅A behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by past rewards
aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might believe aggression is caused by memories
or ways we think about aggressive behavior.
Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feeling of hostillity toward a coworker are most likely caused
by the way the client interpretes the coworker's actions and the way he think that people should
behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective? - ANS✅✅Cognitive.
The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called what? - ANS✅✅Introspection.
Which of the following psychologists wrote the first psychology textbook? - ANS✅✅William James.
Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?
A. Carl Rogers
,B. Wilhelm Wundt
C. B.F. Skinner
D. John Watson
E. Max Wertheimer - ANS✅✅E. Max Wertheimer
Which of the following concepts is most integral to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory?
A. trephining
B. structuralism
C. the unconscious mind
D. the concept of Gestalt
E. behaviorism - ANS✅✅C. The unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for being:
A. appropriate for female patients, but not male patients.
B. only applicable to research settings, not therapy settings.
C. based on large groups, but not individual cases.
D. unscientific and unverifiable
E. too closely toed to behavioristic thought. - ANS✅✅D. unscientific and unverifiable
John Watson relied on the pioneering work of _ in establishing behaviorism as a paradigm of
psychology. - ANS✅✅Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner introduced the idea of _ to the paradigm of behaviorism. - ANS✅✅Reinforcement.
Which of the following psychologists might have described himself as a humanist?
A. B.F. Skinner
B. William James
C. Abraham Maslow
D. John Watson
E. Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅C. Abraham Maslow
, Symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from what kind
of perspective? - ANS✅✅Psychoanalytic.
Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of what? - ANS✅✅Past conditioning.
A therapist who says that she uses whatever psychological perspective "works best" for each patient
might be best describe as:
A. social-cultural
B. humanist
C. eclectic
D. psychoanalytic
E. functionalist - ANS✅✅C. Eclectic
Psychologists generally prefer the experimental method to toher research methods because:
A. experimetns are more likely to support psychologists' hypothesies.
B. experiments can show cause-effect relationships
C. it is easier to obtain a random sample for an experiement.
D. double blind designs are unnecessary in an experiment.
E. experiments are more likely to result in statistically significant findings. - ANS✅✅B. experiments
can shwo cause-effect relationships.
Theoretically, random assignment should eliminate:
A. sampling error
B. the need to use statistics
C. concerns over validity
D. many confounding variables
E. the need for a representative sample - ANS✅✅A. sampling error
Charlotte and Tamar are lab partners assigned to research who is friendlier, girls or boys. After
conversing with their first ten participants, they find that their friendliness ratings often differ. With
which of the following should they be most concerned?
A. reliability
B. confounding variables
answers graded A+
You are at a lecture about the history of psychology and the speaker states that Wilhelm Wundt's
theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychological theory. On what historical fact might the
speaker be basing her or his argument?
- ANS✅✅Structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments, so it is, at least
in part, emperical.
Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious mind:
A. was revolutionary because it was the first comprehensive explanation of human thought and
behavior.
B. resulted from discoveries about the human brain obtained by cadaver dissection.
C. is outdated and has no relevance for modern psychology.
D. focused entirely on human males' sex drive.
E. depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be consciously aware of the
memory. - ANS✅✅E. depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be
consciously aware of the memory.
In what way might a behaviorist disagree with a cognitive psychologist about the cause of
aggression? - ANS✅✅A behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by past rewards
aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might believe aggression is caused by memories
or ways we think about aggressive behavior.
Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feeling of hostillity toward a coworker are most likely caused
by the way the client interpretes the coworker's actions and the way he think that people should
behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective? - ANS✅✅Cognitive.
The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called what? - ANS✅✅Introspection.
Which of the following psychologists wrote the first psychology textbook? - ANS✅✅William James.
Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?
A. Carl Rogers
,B. Wilhelm Wundt
C. B.F. Skinner
D. John Watson
E. Max Wertheimer - ANS✅✅E. Max Wertheimer
Which of the following concepts is most integral to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory?
A. trephining
B. structuralism
C. the unconscious mind
D. the concept of Gestalt
E. behaviorism - ANS✅✅C. The unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for being:
A. appropriate for female patients, but not male patients.
B. only applicable to research settings, not therapy settings.
C. based on large groups, but not individual cases.
D. unscientific and unverifiable
E. too closely toed to behavioristic thought. - ANS✅✅D. unscientific and unverifiable
John Watson relied on the pioneering work of _ in establishing behaviorism as a paradigm of
psychology. - ANS✅✅Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner introduced the idea of _ to the paradigm of behaviorism. - ANS✅✅Reinforcement.
Which of the following psychologists might have described himself as a humanist?
A. B.F. Skinner
B. William James
C. Abraham Maslow
D. John Watson
E. Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅C. Abraham Maslow
, Symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from what kind
of perspective? - ANS✅✅Psychoanalytic.
Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of what? - ANS✅✅Past conditioning.
A therapist who says that she uses whatever psychological perspective "works best" for each patient
might be best describe as:
A. social-cultural
B. humanist
C. eclectic
D. psychoanalytic
E. functionalist - ANS✅✅C. Eclectic
Psychologists generally prefer the experimental method to toher research methods because:
A. experimetns are more likely to support psychologists' hypothesies.
B. experiments can show cause-effect relationships
C. it is easier to obtain a random sample for an experiement.
D. double blind designs are unnecessary in an experiment.
E. experiments are more likely to result in statistically significant findings. - ANS✅✅B. experiments
can shwo cause-effect relationships.
Theoretically, random assignment should eliminate:
A. sampling error
B. the need to use statistics
C. concerns over validity
D. many confounding variables
E. the need for a representative sample - ANS✅✅A. sampling error
Charlotte and Tamar are lab partners assigned to research who is friendlier, girls or boys. After
conversing with their first ten participants, they find that their friendliness ratings often differ. With
which of the following should they be most concerned?
A. reliability
B. confounding variables
