PSYC 375 HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY EXAM SCRIPT
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following is consistent with Herbart's advice to teachers? - ✔✔Relate
new material to what has already been learned.
✔✔After visiting with Galileo, Hobbes became convinced that: - ✔✔humans could be
completely understood by employing only the concepts of matter and motion
✔✔Locke believed that all human emotions were derived from: - ✔✔Experiences of
pleasure and pain
✔✔All of the following were true of the British empiricists except: - ✔✔a. they attempted
to explain the functioning of the mind as Newton had explained the functioning of the
universe
b. they denied the existence of innate ideas
c. they believed that all ideas were derived from experience Incorrect(p. 131)
d. they denied the existence of mental events
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The correct answer is: they denied the existence of mental events
✔✔Which one of the following is not one of the three parts of the dialectic process of
Hegel? - ✔✔synthesis
b. antithesis
c. thesis
d. conflict Correct(p. 200)
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The correct answer is: conflict
✔✔James Mill maintained that any mental experience could be reduced to: - ✔✔the
simple ideas of which it is constructed
✔✔For Hartley, the only process that converted simple ideas into complex ideas was: -
✔✔Association
✔✔Berkeley believed that ____ was responsible for the widespread religious skepticism
and atheism of his day. - ✔✔Materialism
✔✔Panpsychism is the belief that: - ✔✔everything in nature has consciousness (mental
processes)
✔✔According to ____, when a person has a desire to move his arm, God is aware of
this desire and moves the person's arm. - ✔✔Malebranche
,✔✔Kant called the rational principle that either does or should govern moral behavior: -
✔✔the categorical imperative
✔✔Spinoza viewed the mind and the body as: - ✔✔Inseperable
✔✔According to Bernard, Spinoza's belief in ____ did much to influence the
development of scientific psychology. - ✔✔psychic determinism
✔✔According to Reid: - ✔✔the faculties of the mind were aspects of a unified mind and
never functioned in isolation to one another
✔✔According to Kant: - ✔✔we must be forever ignorant of physical reality
✔✔Herbart felt psychology could not be an experimental science because: - ✔✔the
mind could not be fractionated for analysis
✔✔CHAPTER 7- 8
The romantic philosophers considered which human characteristic as most important? -
✔✔irrational feelings
✔✔The statement "Man is born free and yet we see him everywhere in chains" is
associated with: - ✔✔Russeau
✔✔Goethe viewed science as: - ✔✔Useful but limited
✔✔Kant's nativism stressed mental categories, whereas Muller stressed: -
✔✔Physiological Mechanisms
✔✔Schopenhauer stated that we may repress undesirable thoughts into the: -
✔✔Unconscious
✔✔According to Schopenhauer, when all of our needs are temporarily satisfied we feel:
- ✔✔Bored
✔✔For Rousseau, the best guide for human conduct was (were): - ✔✔a person's
honest feelings and inclinations
✔✔The romantics defined the good life as one lived in accordance with: - ✔✔Ones own
inner nature
✔✔Nietzsche believed all of the following except - ✔✔anything that increases a
person's power was good
b. without human companionship, human existence was meaningless Correct(p. 224)
, c. anything that does not kill a person strengthened him or her
d. happiness was the feeling that one's power was growing
✔✔According to the romantics, the best way to find out what humans were really like
was to study the: - ✔✔Total Person
✔✔Schopenhauer believed that life was best viewed as: - ✔✔Postponement of death
✔✔Kierkegaard believed that the existence of God: - ✔✔Had to be taken in faith
✔✔Which of the following is not part of the existential philosophy? - ✔✔uniqueness of
each individual
b. freedom of choice
c. the importance of rational thought Correct(p. 217)
d. stressing the meaning of human existence
✔✔The basis of Schopenhauer's philosophy was the distinction between the noumenal
and phenomenal worlds proposed by: - ✔✔Kant
✔✔The romantic philosophers said that humans possess many characteristics which
we need to take into account. Which of the following is not one of them? - ✔✔. irrational
feelings
b. intuitions
c. instincts
d. logistics Correct(p. 208)
✔✔Which of the following characterized Rousseau's utopian society? - ✔✔the
surrender of the individual will to the general will
✔✔Using the method of ____, pairs of stimuli are presented to the subject. One
stimulus remains the same, the standard, and the other varies from one presentation to
the next. - ✔✔Constant Stimuli
✔✔The work of such researchers as Broca, Fritsch, Hitzig, and Ferrier did not support
phrenology because: - ✔✔the localized cortical functions that it isolated were not where
the phrenologists said they were and the cortical functions that were discovered were
quite different from those functions postulated by the phrenologists
✔✔Helmholtz expressed amazement over the fact that: - ✔✔sensory systems distorted
our knowledge of the physical world to the extent that they do
✔✔According to Ladd-Franklin, which of the following sequences accurately describes
the evolution of vision? - ✔✔achromatic vision - blue-yellow sensitivity - red-green
sensitivity
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following is consistent with Herbart's advice to teachers? - ✔✔Relate
new material to what has already been learned.
✔✔After visiting with Galileo, Hobbes became convinced that: - ✔✔humans could be
completely understood by employing only the concepts of matter and motion
✔✔Locke believed that all human emotions were derived from: - ✔✔Experiences of
pleasure and pain
✔✔All of the following were true of the British empiricists except: - ✔✔a. they attempted
to explain the functioning of the mind as Newton had explained the functioning of the
universe
b. they denied the existence of innate ideas
c. they believed that all ideas were derived from experience Incorrect(p. 131)
d. they denied the existence of mental events
Feedback
The correct answer is: they denied the existence of mental events
✔✔Which one of the following is not one of the three parts of the dialectic process of
Hegel? - ✔✔synthesis
b. antithesis
c. thesis
d. conflict Correct(p. 200)
Feedback
The correct answer is: conflict
✔✔James Mill maintained that any mental experience could be reduced to: - ✔✔the
simple ideas of which it is constructed
✔✔For Hartley, the only process that converted simple ideas into complex ideas was: -
✔✔Association
✔✔Berkeley believed that ____ was responsible for the widespread religious skepticism
and atheism of his day. - ✔✔Materialism
✔✔Panpsychism is the belief that: - ✔✔everything in nature has consciousness (mental
processes)
✔✔According to ____, when a person has a desire to move his arm, God is aware of
this desire and moves the person's arm. - ✔✔Malebranche
,✔✔Kant called the rational principle that either does or should govern moral behavior: -
✔✔the categorical imperative
✔✔Spinoza viewed the mind and the body as: - ✔✔Inseperable
✔✔According to Bernard, Spinoza's belief in ____ did much to influence the
development of scientific psychology. - ✔✔psychic determinism
✔✔According to Reid: - ✔✔the faculties of the mind were aspects of a unified mind and
never functioned in isolation to one another
✔✔According to Kant: - ✔✔we must be forever ignorant of physical reality
✔✔Herbart felt psychology could not be an experimental science because: - ✔✔the
mind could not be fractionated for analysis
✔✔CHAPTER 7- 8
The romantic philosophers considered which human characteristic as most important? -
✔✔irrational feelings
✔✔The statement "Man is born free and yet we see him everywhere in chains" is
associated with: - ✔✔Russeau
✔✔Goethe viewed science as: - ✔✔Useful but limited
✔✔Kant's nativism stressed mental categories, whereas Muller stressed: -
✔✔Physiological Mechanisms
✔✔Schopenhauer stated that we may repress undesirable thoughts into the: -
✔✔Unconscious
✔✔According to Schopenhauer, when all of our needs are temporarily satisfied we feel:
- ✔✔Bored
✔✔For Rousseau, the best guide for human conduct was (were): - ✔✔a person's
honest feelings and inclinations
✔✔The romantics defined the good life as one lived in accordance with: - ✔✔Ones own
inner nature
✔✔Nietzsche believed all of the following except - ✔✔anything that increases a
person's power was good
b. without human companionship, human existence was meaningless Correct(p. 224)
, c. anything that does not kill a person strengthened him or her
d. happiness was the feeling that one's power was growing
✔✔According to the romantics, the best way to find out what humans were really like
was to study the: - ✔✔Total Person
✔✔Schopenhauer believed that life was best viewed as: - ✔✔Postponement of death
✔✔Kierkegaard believed that the existence of God: - ✔✔Had to be taken in faith
✔✔Which of the following is not part of the existential philosophy? - ✔✔uniqueness of
each individual
b. freedom of choice
c. the importance of rational thought Correct(p. 217)
d. stressing the meaning of human existence
✔✔The basis of Schopenhauer's philosophy was the distinction between the noumenal
and phenomenal worlds proposed by: - ✔✔Kant
✔✔The romantic philosophers said that humans possess many characteristics which
we need to take into account. Which of the following is not one of them? - ✔✔. irrational
feelings
b. intuitions
c. instincts
d. logistics Correct(p. 208)
✔✔Which of the following characterized Rousseau's utopian society? - ✔✔the
surrender of the individual will to the general will
✔✔Using the method of ____, pairs of stimuli are presented to the subject. One
stimulus remains the same, the standard, and the other varies from one presentation to
the next. - ✔✔Constant Stimuli
✔✔The work of such researchers as Broca, Fritsch, Hitzig, and Ferrier did not support
phrenology because: - ✔✔the localized cortical functions that it isolated were not where
the phrenologists said they were and the cortical functions that were discovered were
quite different from those functions postulated by the phrenologists
✔✔Helmholtz expressed amazement over the fact that: - ✔✔sensory systems distorted
our knowledge of the physical world to the extent that they do
✔✔According to Ladd-Franklin, which of the following sequences accurately describes
the evolution of vision? - ✔✔achromatic vision - blue-yellow sensitivity - red-green
sensitivity
