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Introducing Psychology
Daniel Schacter, Daniel Gilbert
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5th Edition
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1. René Descartes believed that the brain and the mind are fundamentally the same thing.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b
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2. Philosophical empiricists believe that certain knowledge is innate.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: b
3. Wilhelm Wundt first used reaction time to measure the speed of a nervous impulse.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b
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4. Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879.
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a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: a
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5. Helmholtz developed introspection as a tool for understanding the structure of
consciousness.
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b. False
ANSWER: b
6. Wilhelm Wundt believed that consciousness could be broken down into its component
parts.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
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7. Wilhelm Wundt was most interested in how consciousness is an adaptive feature of the
human existence.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: b
8. Functionalists depended on introspection to study subjective observations of personal
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experience.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: b
9. William James did not believe that consciousness could be broken down into basic
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elements.
a. True
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b. False
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ANSWER: a
10. The work of William James was largely influenced by Darwin's theory of natural
selection.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
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11. Freud believed that unconscious mental processes shape feelings, thoughts, and
behaviors.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
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12. The goal of psychoanalysis is to banish unwanted feelings and memories to the
unconscious.
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a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: b
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13. The greatest contribution of psychoanalysis was the research in experimental
psychology that it generated.
a. True