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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?
a. 1859 in England
b. 1879 in Germany
c. 1883 in the United States
d. 1909 in Austria
ANSWER: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember

3. According to Wilhelm Wundt, what was the focus of psychology?
a. to understand functions of behaviour
b. to understand unconscious motivation
c. the scientific study of observable behaviour
d. the scientific study of conscious experience
ANSWER: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Remember

4. What did Wilhelm Wundt believe the focus of psychology should be?
a. studying stimulus-response associations
b. questioning the nature of existence
c. examining people‘s awareness of their immediate experience
d. determining people‘s unconscious motivation for behaviour
ANSWER: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 4 BLM: Higher order

5. Who established the first psychological research laboratory in the United States
and launched that country‘s first psychology journal?
a. William James
b. G. Stanley Hall
c. John Watson
d. Edward Titchener
ANSWER: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 5 BLM: Remember

, 6. Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association (APA)?
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a. G. Stanley Hall
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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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b. Western Psychological Society
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c. World Psychology Organization
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d. American Psychological Association
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8. What were the first two major schools of psychology?
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b. behaviourism and psychoanalytic theory m m m


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d. structuralism and functionalism m m




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9. Which school of psychology focused on identifying and examining the
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fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and
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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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11. Mariska is participating in a study in which she is asked to carefully
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observeand report her conscious reactions to several stimuli. Which type of
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psychologist is most likely to conduct a study like this?
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a. structuralist