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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Andre studies if altruism varies as a function of individualistic or collectivist societies. He pays particular
attention to differences in values between the two societies. What type of psychologist is Andre?
a. evolutionary
b. cultural
c. cognitive
d. Gestalt
ANSWER: b
2. Wertheimer, a Gestalt psychologist, showed that _____ occurs because the mind has theories about how the
world works and it uses these theories to make sense of incoming sensory stimuli.
a. illusory motion
b. introspection
c. reinforcement
d. dream analysis
ANSWER: a
3. Sigmund Freud is to Edward Titchener as _____ is to _____.
a. psychoanalysis; introspection
b. introspection; behaviourism
c. empiricism; structuralism
d. psychoanalysis; functionalism
ANSWER: a
4. A college student taking introductory psychology decides to test Piaget's theories of mental development on
his 10-year-old sister, who loves hot dogs and is very hungry. He shows her two hot dogs. Then, while she is
watching, he breaks one of the hot dogs in half. He asks if she would like one hot dog (the intact hot dog) or
two hot dogs (the hot dog cut in half). Consistent with Piaget's findings, the girl probably will:
a. select the intact hot dog.
b. select the hot dog cut in half.
c. state that both choices are the same.
d. become confused and have trouble deciding.
ANSWER: c
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5. The research of which psychologist gave birth to the field of social psychology?
a. Jean Piaget
b. Kurt Lewin
c. Max Wertheimer
d. Solomon Asch
ANSWER: b
6. Kolby believes that a nonphysical spiritual entity inside each of us controls our physical body and the
decisions that we make. Her beliefs are MOST consistent with which philosophical view?
a. behaviourism
b. philosophical empiricism
c. phrenology
d. dualism
ANSWER: d
7. After conducting repeated experiments in which he first trained rats to navigate a maze and then removed tiny
sections of their brains to see if that brain region eliminated learning, Lashley reported that:
a. learning the maze could be erased by removing a tiny section of Broca's area.
b. the memory of the maze was localized in the right hemisphere of the brain.
c. the memory of the maze was localized in the left hemisphere of the brain.
d. no one brain region seemed to uniquely and reliably eliminate maze learning.
ANSWER: d
8. According to John Watson, the goal of a scientific psychology is to:
a. examine stimulus and response.
b. understand both the structure and function of consciousness.
c. determine the neural mechanisms underlying behaviour and thought.
d. ease psychological distress and help people reach their fullest potential.
ANSWER: a
9. The French physician Paul Broca discovered a brain region that was associated with the:
a. production and understanding of speech.
b. production of speech.
c. understanding of speech.
d. ability to understand novel speech.
ANSWER: b
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10. The emergence of evolutionary psychology as a recent psychological discipline is largely credited to the work
of the biologist:
a. Ivan Pavlov.
b. Charles Darwin.
c. E. O. Wilson.
d. B. F. Skinner.
ANSWER: c
11. Which psychologist is associated with the development of cumulative recorders that record the frequency of
responses in real time?
a. John Watson
b. William James
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. B. F. Skinner
ANSWER: d
12. Social psychology examines issues such as conformity, racism, and stereotyping by:
a. focusing on features that were passed on to people hereditarily.
b. accounting for people's cultural background and personal beliefs.
c. localizing regions of the brain responsible for these issues.
d. considering the effects of other people on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
ANSWER: d
13. Which scenario represents the principle of reinforcement?
a. doing the same thing over and over again regardless of the consequences
b. blinking when a particle lands in your eye
c. studying hard because it results in good grades
d. introspecting about a pleasurable experience in your life
ANSWER: c
14. According to Kurt Lewin, a construal is:
a. a physical property of the stimulus.
b. the observable response to the stimulus.
c. a perceptual illusion that commonly occurs to visual stimuli.
d. how people think about stimuli.
ANSWER: d
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15. The research of Broca:
a. established behaviourism as a true science.
b. confirmed Descartes's belief that the mind and body were linked via the pineal gland.
c. is consistent with the view of the mind held by Thomas Hobbes.
d. demonstrated that mental processes can occur independently of brain activity.
ANSWER: c
16. Which field of psychology is interested in studying errors of perception, memory, or judgement in which
subjective experience differs from objective reality?
a. behaviourism
b. Gestalt psychology
c. psychoanalysis
d. functionalism
ANSWER: b
17. If you believe that the results of a study on conformity conducted on college students in the United States
may differ considerably had the study taken place among older adults in Asia, you are thinking like a(n):
a. evolutionary psychologist.
b. behaviourist.
c. neuroscientist.
d. cultural psychologist.
ANSWER: d
18. After training rats to successfully navigate a maze, Karl Lashley sought to determine the precise spot in the
brain where the learning occurred by:
a. surgically removing tiny sections of the brain and then retesting the rats.
b. giving the rats experimental drugs that target specific brain areas and then retesting the rats.
c. studying differences in dendritic density in various brain regions under a microscope after the rats'
death.
d. studying the rats running the maze while connected to a recorder that measured brain electrical
activity.
ANSWER: a
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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Andre studies if altruism varies as a function of individualistic or collectivist societies. He pays particular
attention to differences in values between the two societies. What type of psychologist is Andre?
a. evolutionary
b. cultural
c. cognitive
d. Gestalt
ANSWER: b
2. Wertheimer, a Gestalt psychologist, showed that _____ occurs because the mind has theories about how the
world works and it uses these theories to make sense of incoming sensory stimuli.
a. illusory motion
b. introspection
c. reinforcement
d. dream analysis
ANSWER: a
3. Sigmund Freud is to Edward Titchener as _____ is to _____.
a. psychoanalysis; introspection
b. introspection; behaviourism
c. empiricism; structuralism
d. psychoanalysis; functionalism
ANSWER: a
4. A college student taking introductory psychology decides to test Piaget's theories of mental development on
his 10-year-old sister, who loves hot dogs and is very hungry. He shows her two hot dogs. Then, while she is
watching, he breaks one of the hot dogs in half. He asks if she would like one hot dog (the intact hot dog) or
two hot dogs (the hot dog cut in half). Consistent with Piaget's findings, the girl probably will:
a. select the intact hot dog.
b. select the hot dog cut in half.
c. state that both choices are the same.
d. become confused and have trouble deciding.
ANSWER: c
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5. The research of which psychologist gave birth to the field of social psychology?
a. Jean Piaget
b. Kurt Lewin
c. Max Wertheimer
d. Solomon Asch
ANSWER: b
6. Kolby believes that a nonphysical spiritual entity inside each of us controls our physical body and the
decisions that we make. Her beliefs are MOST consistent with which philosophical view?
a. behaviourism
b. philosophical empiricism
c. phrenology
d. dualism
ANSWER: d
7. After conducting repeated experiments in which he first trained rats to navigate a maze and then removed tiny
sections of their brains to see if that brain region eliminated learning, Lashley reported that:
a. learning the maze could be erased by removing a tiny section of Broca's area.
b. the memory of the maze was localized in the right hemisphere of the brain.
c. the memory of the maze was localized in the left hemisphere of the brain.
d. no one brain region seemed to uniquely and reliably eliminate maze learning.
ANSWER: d
8. According to John Watson, the goal of a scientific psychology is to:
a. examine stimulus and response.
b. understand both the structure and function of consciousness.
c. determine the neural mechanisms underlying behaviour and thought.
d. ease psychological distress and help people reach their fullest potential.
ANSWER: a
9. The French physician Paul Broca discovered a brain region that was associated with the:
a. production and understanding of speech.
b. production of speech.
c. understanding of speech.
d. ability to understand novel speech.
ANSWER: b
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10. The emergence of evolutionary psychology as a recent psychological discipline is largely credited to the work
of the biologist:
a. Ivan Pavlov.
b. Charles Darwin.
c. E. O. Wilson.
d. B. F. Skinner.
ANSWER: c
11. Which psychologist is associated with the development of cumulative recorders that record the frequency of
responses in real time?
a. John Watson
b. William James
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. B. F. Skinner
ANSWER: d
12. Social psychology examines issues such as conformity, racism, and stereotyping by:
a. focusing on features that were passed on to people hereditarily.
b. accounting for people's cultural background and personal beliefs.
c. localizing regions of the brain responsible for these issues.
d. considering the effects of other people on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
ANSWER: d
13. Which scenario represents the principle of reinforcement?
a. doing the same thing over and over again regardless of the consequences
b. blinking when a particle lands in your eye
c. studying hard because it results in good grades
d. introspecting about a pleasurable experience in your life
ANSWER: c
14. According to Kurt Lewin, a construal is:
a. a physical property of the stimulus.
b. the observable response to the stimulus.
c. a perceptual illusion that commonly occurs to visual stimuli.
d. how people think about stimuli.
ANSWER: d
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15. The research of Broca:
a. established behaviourism as a true science.
b. confirmed Descartes's belief that the mind and body were linked via the pineal gland.
c. is consistent with the view of the mind held by Thomas Hobbes.
d. demonstrated that mental processes can occur independently of brain activity.
ANSWER: c
16. Which field of psychology is interested in studying errors of perception, memory, or judgement in which
subjective experience differs from objective reality?
a. behaviourism
b. Gestalt psychology
c. psychoanalysis
d. functionalism
ANSWER: b
17. If you believe that the results of a study on conformity conducted on college students in the United States
may differ considerably had the study taken place among older adults in Asia, you are thinking like a(n):
a. evolutionary psychologist.
b. behaviourist.
c. neuroscientist.
d. cultural psychologist.
ANSWER: d
18. After training rats to successfully navigate a maze, Karl Lashley sought to determine the precise spot in the
brain where the learning occurred by:
a. surgically removing tiny sections of the brain and then retesting the rats.
b. giving the rats experimental drugs that target specific brain areas and then retesting the rats.
c. studying differences in dendritic density in various brain regions under a microscope after the rats'
death.
d. studying the rats running the maze while connected to a recorder that measured brain electrical
activity.
ANSWER: a
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