TEST BANK For Psychology Themes and Variations 4th Canadian Edition By WeitenChapters 1 - 16, Complete

TEST BANK For Psychology Themes and
Variations 4th Canadian Edition
By Weiten Chapters 1 - 16, Complete

,TABLE OF CONTENT


CHAPTER 1: The Evolution of Psychology

CHAPTER 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology

CHAPTER 3: The Biological Bases of Behaviour

CHAPTER 4: Sensation and Perception

CHAPTER 5: Variations in Consciousness

CHAPTER 6: Learning

CHAPTER 7: Human Memory

CHAPTER 8: Language and Thought

CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and Psychological Testing

CHAPTER 10: Motivation and Emotion

CHAPTER 11: Human Development across the Life Span

CHAPTER 12: Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment

CHAPTER 13: Social Behaviour

CHAPTER 14: Stress, Coping, and Health

CHAPTER 15: Psychological Disorders

CHAPTER 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorder

,Chapter 1—The Evolution of Psychology

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following individuals is responsible for establishing psychology
as an independent discipline with its own subject matter?
a. Wilhelm Wundt
b. G. Stanley Hall
c. René Descartes
d. William James
ANSWER: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember

2. According to historians, when and where did the ―birth‖ of psychology occur?
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a. 1859 gk in England
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b. 1879 gk in Germany
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c. 1883 gk in the United States
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d. 1909 gk in Austria
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3. According to Wilhelm Wundt, what was the focus of psychology?
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a. to understand functions of behaviour
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b. to understand unconscious motivation
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c. the scientific study of observable behaviour
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d. the scientific study of conscious experience
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4. What did Wilhelm Wundt believe the focus of psychology should be?
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a. studying stimulus-response associations
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b. questioning the nature of existence gk gk gk gk


c. examining people‘s awareness of their immediate experience
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d. determining people‘s unconscious motivation for behaviour
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5. Who established the first psychological research laboratory in the United Stat
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esand launched that country‘s first psychology journal?
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a. William James gk


b. G. Stanley Hall
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c. John Watson gk


d. Edward Titchener gk




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, 6. Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association (APA)?
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a. G. Stanley Hall
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d. Sigmund Freud gk




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7. What is the world‘s largest organization devoted to the advancement
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ofpsychology?
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a. Psychologists of North America gk gk gk


b. Western Psychological Society gk gk


c. World Psychology Organization gk gk


d. American Psychological Association gk gk




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8. What were the first two major schools of psychology?
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a. functionalism and behaviourism gk gk


b. behaviourism and psychoanalytic theory gk gk gk


c. behaviourism and Gestalt psychology gk gk gk


d. structuralism and functionalism gk gk




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Which school of psychology focused on identifying and examining the fun
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damental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images?
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a. humanism
b. structuralism
c. functionalism
d. behaviourism
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10. Which type of psychologist was most likely to use the technique
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ofintrospection?
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a. structuralist
b. behaviourist
c. cognitive
d. humanist
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Mariska is participating in a study in which she is asked to carefully obser
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veand report her conscious reactions to several stimuli. Which type of psychologist is m
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ost likely to conduct a study like this?
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a. structuralist