question archive Question 1) According to Carr, which of the following is a necessary part of an adaptive act? Correct! a motive or need a cognitive process an opposing force a link to reproduction Question 2) According to Titchener, all feelings can be explained by employing the dimension of: tension-relaxation excitement-calm Correct pleasantness-unpleasantness joy-sadness Question 3) Affections are represented by: Correct! Elements of emotions Elements of ideas Elements of perceptions Elements of Consciousness Question 4) A theory was proposed and it has proven good at explaining and predicting key phenomena -- however the researchers have had difficulty determining the truth or falseness of the theory describes Pragmatism Instrumentalism You Answered Fallibilism Empiricism Question 5) Causation of human behavior can also occur outside the individual is an idea suggested by _____ and enhanced/continued by _____
Question 1) According to Carr, which of the following is a necessary part of an adaptive act? Correct! a motive or need a cognitive process an opposing force a link to reproduction Question 2) According to Titchener, all feelings can be explained by employing the dimension of: tension-relaxation excitement-calm Correct pleasantness-unpleasantness joy-sadness Question 3) Affections are represented by: Correct! Elements of emotions Elements of ideas Elements of perceptions Elements of Consciousness Question 4) A theory was proposed and it has proven good at explaining and predicting key phenomena -- however the researchers have had difficulty determining the truth or falseness of the theory describes Pragmatism Instrumentalism You Answered Fallibilism Empiricism Question 5) Causation of human behavior can also occur outside the individual is an idea suggested by _____ and enhanced/continued by _____
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Question 1) According to Carr, which of the following is a necessary part of an adaptive act?
Correct!
a motive or need
a cognitive process
an opposing force
a link to reproduction
Question 2)
According to Titchener, all feelings can be explained by employing the dimension of:
tension-relaxation
excitement-calm
Correct
pleasantness-unpleasantness
joy-sadness
Question 3)
Affections are represented by:
Correct!
Elements of emotions
Elements of ideas
Elements of perceptions
Elements of Consciousness
A theory was proposed and it has proven good at explaining and predicting key phenomena -- however the researchers have had difficulty determining the truth or falseness of the theory describes
Pragmatism
Instrumentalism
You Answered
Fallibilism
Empiricism
Question 5)
Causation of human behavior can also occur outside the individual is an idea suggested by _____ and enhanced/continued by _____.
Aristotle/James
James/Wertheimer
Correct!
Galileo/Lewin
Kant/Lewin
Children’s nature is NOT comprised of this per John Dewey
Correct!
Rational
Curious
Social
Expressive
Early U.S. Psychology has been divided into __________ stages.
two
three
Correct!
four
five
Empiricists see sensation as the building blocks of our
Thought process
You Answered
Perception
Comprehension
Conscious experience
Everyone agrees that the recognized founder of Functionalism was
John Dewey
You Answered
William James
Hugo Munsterberg
No such agreement exists
Question 10)
For Titchener, the ____ of psychology involved a search for the neurological correlates of mental events.
what
how
Correct!
why
when
For Wertheimer, the essence of the gestalt approach was that there are
You Answered
Wholes that are determined by the nature of their parts rather than the other way around
Wholes that determine the nature of their parts rather than the other way around
Parts that exist separately from the wholes of which they are part
Parts that have intrinsic qualities apart from the wholes of which they are part
Gesaltists believe that sensations are the building blocks of conscious experience.
True
Correct!
False
Gestaltists believed that consciousness could
be reduced
Correct!
not be reduced
explain behavior
explain cognition
Question 14
He studied in the area of Forensic Psychology.
William James
You Answered
John Dewey
Hugo Munsterberg
Wolfgang Kohler
Question 15
Hugo Munsterberg was seen as one of the first, if not the first applied psychologist.
Correct!True
False
In explaining how the elements of thought combine, Titchener emphasized:
apperception
creative synthesis
Correct!
traditional associationism
an active mind
James believed that the experimental method was the only technique to be employed and the one we should focus on utilizing.
True
Correct!
False
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This question has been regraded.
John Dewey was a pioneer of progressive education, which is NOT a part of his view
take into account the interests of the child
an strong emphasis should be placed on child centered learning
avoid reliance on traditional views of education with a focus on integrating curriculum
Correct!
All were part of his views
Question 19
Lewin believed that external forces at any given moment affect the behavior of an organism.
Correct!
True
False
Question 20
Our mind wants to make the most meaningful yet easiest interpretation of stimuli it can generate is called:
Minimization of perception
You Answered
Least possible perception
Minimum principle of perception
Occam's rule of perception
Per Gestaltists, an organism learns principles or relationships, not specific responses to specific situations.
Transfer-training
Insight learning
Correct!
Transposition
Trial and error
Per Wundt, higher mental processes are reflected in
Dreams
Correct!
Human Culture
History
Art
Phi phenomenon tested by ___________ had influence on ________ theory of______.
Hugo Münsterberg; Kohler; insight learning
Max Wertheimer; Kohler; film
Hugo Münsterberg; Max Wertheimer; insight learning
Correct!
Max Wertheimer; Hugo Münsterberg; film
Research participants today are treated like blank slates (tabula rasa).
True
You Answered
False
Question 25
Retrospection was used
as an alternative to introspection
You Answered
as a tool to examine the unconscious
to avoid contamination and as an alternative to introspection
Retrospection would be impacted by
poor memory
the need for spontaneous occurrences
Correct!
both poor memory and spontaneous occurrences
none of the items are correct
Question 27
The central concept on Wundt's voluntarism was:
association
involuntary behavior
Correct!
will
apperceptive mass
The first school of psychology
Functionalism
You Answered
Structuralism
Voluntarism
ACT psychology
Question 29
The functionalist that most impacted behaviorism was
W. James
J. Dewey
You Answered
B.F. Skinner
E. Thorndike
Question 30
The mind is represented by:
Elements of emotions
Elements of ideas
Elements of perceptions
Correct!
Elements of consciousness
The number representing the speed of sound is named after E. Titchener for his contributions in physics.
True
Correct!
False
The theory of evolution played a significant role in the philosophy of functionalism.
Correct!
True
False
The very intent to observe X, you alter the psychological process you are trying to observe. This suggests that there may be
contamination
ambiguity
You Answered
confounds
none of the choices
Question 34
This is the cornerstone of functionalism.
Correct!
pragmatism
consequences
truth
none of the other options
This researcher examined the area of learning.
Correct!
Kohler
Koffka
Wertheimer
James
Titchener defined ____ as the sum total of mental experience at any given moment.
the mind
Correct!
the consciousness
the apperceptive mass
general impression
Which item is NOT a component of structuralism?
Focus on elements
Examine the components of consciousness
Focus on the organization of elements
You Answered
Association gives meaning to sensations
William James doubts the existence of absolute or objective truth.
Correct!
True
False
Question 39
William James view of consciousness as experience in continuous flux best resembles
Hume's notion of self (Bundle theory)
Locke's view of psychological continuity
You Answered
Descartes' dualism
Berkeley's perception
Wundt, the father of experimental psychology saw that experimentation was useful to examine both basic and complex phenomena.
True
Correct!
False
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ACCORDING TO CARR, WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A NECESSARY PART OF AN ADAPTIVE ACT?
CORRECT!
A MOTIVE OR NEED
A COGNITIVE PROCESS
AN OPPOSING FORCE
A LINK TO REPRODUCTION
1 / 1 PTS
ACCORDING TO TITCHENER, ALL FEELINGS CAN BE EXPLAINED BY EMPLOYING THE DIMENSION OF:
TENSION-RELAXATION
EXCITEMENT-CALM
CORRECT!
PLEASANTNESS-UNPLEASANTNESS
JOY-SADNESS
1 / 1 PTS
AFFECTIONS ARE REPRESENTED BY:
CORRECT!
ELEMENTS OF EMOTIONS
ELEMENTS OF IDEAS
ELEMENTS OF PERCEPTIONS
ELEMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
0 / 1 PTS
A THEORY WAS PROPOSED AND IT HAS PROVEN GOOD AT EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING KEY PHENOMENA -- HOWEVER THE RESEARCHERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY DETERMINING THE TRUTH OR FALSENESS OF THE THEORY DESCRIBES
PRAGMATISM
CORRECT ANSWER
INSTRUMENTALISM
YOU ANSWERED
FALLIBILISM
EMPIRICISM
1 / 1 PTS
CAUSATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR CAN ALSO OCCUR OUTSIDE THE INDIVIDUAL IS AN IDEA SUGGESTED BY _____ AND ENHANCED/CONTINUED BY _____.
ARISTOTLE/JAMES
JAMES/WERTHEIMER
CORRECT!
GALILEO/LEWIN
KANT/LEWIN
1 / 1 PTS
CHILDREN’S NATURE IS NOT COMPRISED OF THIS PER JOHN DEWEY
CORRECT!
RATIONAL
CURIOUS
SOCIAL
EXPRESSIVE
1 / 1 PTS
EARLY U.S. PSYCHOLOGY HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO __________ STAGES.
TWO
THREE
CORRECT!
FOUR
FIVE
0 / 1 PTS
EMPIRICISTS SEE SENSATION AS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF OUR
THOUGHT PROCESS
YOU ANSWERED
PERCEPTION
COMPREHENSION
CORRECT ANSWER
CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE
0 / 1 PTS
EVERYONE AGREES THAT THE RECOGNIZED FOUNDER OF FUNCTIONALISM WAS
JOHN DEWEY
YOU ANSWERED
WILLIAM JAMES
HUGO MUNSTERBERG
CORRECT ANSWER
NO SUCH AGREEMENT EXISTS
1 / 1 PTS
FOR TITCHENER, THE ____ OF PSYCHOLOGY INVOLVED A SEARCH FOR THE NEUROLOGICAL CORRELATES OF MENTAL EVENTS.
WHAT
HOW
CORRECT!
WHY
WHEN
0 / 1 PTS
FOR WERTHEIMER, THE ESSENCE OF THE GESTALT APPROACH WAS THAT THERE ARE
YOU ANSWERED
WHOLES THAT ARE DETERMINED BY THE NATURE OF THEIR PARTS RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND
CORRECT ANSWER
WHOLES THAT DETERMINE THE NATURE OF THEIR PARTS RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND
PARTS THAT EXIST SEPARATELY FROM THE WHOLES OF WHICH THEY ARE PART
PARTS THAT HAVE INTRINSIC QUALITIES APART FROM THE WHOLES OF WHICH THEY ARE PART
1 / 1 PTS
GESALTISTS BELIEVE THAT SENSATIONS ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE.
TRUE
CORRECT!
FALSE
1 / 1 PTS
GESTALTISTS BELIEVED THAT CONSCIOUSNESS COULD
BE REDUCED
CORRECT!
NOT BE REDUCED
EXPLAIN BEHAVIOR
EXPLAIN COGNITION
0 / 1 PTS
HE STUDIED IN THE AREA OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY.
WILLIAM JAMES
YOU ANSWERED
JOHN DEWEY
CORRECT ANSWER
HUGO MUNSTERBERG
WOLFGANG KOHLER
1 / 1 PTS
HUGO MUNSTERBERG WAS SEEN AS ONE OF THE FIRST, IF NOT THE FIRST APPLIED PSYCHOLOGIST.
CORRECT!
TRUE
FALSE
1 / 1 PTS
IN EXPLAINING HOW THE ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT COMBINE, TITCHENER EMPHASIZED:
APPERCEPTION
CREATIVE SYNTHESIS
CORRECT!
TRADITIONAL ASSOCIATIONISM
AN ACTIVE MIND
1 / 1 PTS
JAMES BELIEVED THAT THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD WAS THE ONLY TECHNIQUE TO BE EMPLOYED AND THE ONE WE SHOULD FOCUS ON UTILIZING.
TRUE
CORRECT!
FALSE
ORIGINAL SCORE: 0 / 1 PTS REGRADED SCORE: 1 / 1 PTS
THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN REGRADED.
JOHN DEWEY WAS A PIONEER OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION, WHICH IS NOT A PART OF HIS VIEW
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE INTERESTS OF THE CHILD
AN STRONG EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON CHILD CENTERED LEARNING
AVOID RELIANCE ON TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF EDUCATION WITH A FOCUS ON INTEGRATING CURRICULUM
CORRECT!
ALL WERE PART OF HIS VIEWS
1 / 1 PTS
LEWIN BELIEVED THAT EXTERNAL FORCES AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT AFFECT THE BEHAVIOR OF AN ORGANISM.
CORRECT!
TRUE
FALSE
0 / 1 PTS
OUR MIND WANTS TO MAKE THE MOST MEANINGFUL YET EASIEST INTERPRETATION OF STIMULI IT CAN GENERATE IS CALLED:
MINIMIZATION OF PERCEPTION
YOU ANSWERED
LEAST POSSIBLE PERCEPTION
CORRECT ANSWER
MINIMUM PRINCIPLE OF PERCEPTION
OCCAM'S RULE OF PERCEPTION
1 / 1 PTS
PER GESTALTISTS, AN ORGANISM LEARNS PRINCIPLES OR RELATIONSHIPS, NOT SPECIFIC RESPONSES TO SPECIFIC SITUATIONS.
TRANSFER-TRAINING
INSIGHT LEARNING
CORRECT!
TRANSPOSITION
TRIAL AND ERROR
1 / 1 PTS
PER WUNDT, HIGHER MENTAL PROCESSES ARE REFLECTED IN
DREAMS
CORRECT!
HUMAN CULTURE
HISTORY
ART
1 / 1 PTS
PHI PHENOMENON TESTED BY ___________ HAD INFLUENCE ON ________ THEORY OF______.
HUGO MÜNSTERBERG; KOHLER; INSIGHT LEARNING
MAX WERTHEIMER; KOHLER; FILM
HUGO MÜNSTERBERG; MAX WERTHEIMER; INSIGHT LEARNING
CORRECT!
MAX WERTHEIMER; HUGO MÜNSTERBERG; FILM
0 / 1 PTS
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS TODAY ARE TREATED LIKE BLANK SLATES (TABULA RASA).
CORRECT ANSWER
TRUE
YOU ANSWERED
FALSE
0 / 1 PTS
RETROSPECTION WAS USED
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTROSPECTION
YOU ANSWERED
AS A TOOL TO EXAMINE THE UNCONSCIOUS
CORRECT ANSWER
TO AVOID CONTAMINATION AND AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTROSPECTION
1 / 1 PTS
RETROSPECTION WOULD BE IMPACTED BY
POOR MEMORY
THE NEED FOR SPONTANEOUS OCCURRENCES
CORRECT!
BOTH POOR MEMORY AND SPONTANEOUS OCCURRENCES
NONE OF THE ITEMS ARE CORRECT
1 / 1 PTS
THE CENTRAL CONCEPT ON WUNDT'S VOLUNTARISM WAS:
ASSOCIATION
INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOR
CORRECT!
WILL
APPERCEPTIVE MASS
0 / 1 PTS
THE FIRST SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
FUNCTIONALISM
YOU ANSWERED
STRUCTURALISM
CORRECT ANSWER
VOLUNTARISM
ACT PSYCHOLOGY
0 / 1 PTS
THE FUNCTIONALIST THAT MOST IMPACTED BEHAVIORISM WAS
W. JAMES
J. DEWEY
YOU ANSWERED
B.F. SKINNER
CORRECT ANSWER
E. THORNDIKE
1 / 1 PTS
THE MIND IS REPRESENTED BY:
ELEMENTS OF EMOTIONS
ELEMENTS OF IDEAS
ELEMENTS OF PERCEPTIONS
CORRECT!
ELEMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
1 / 1 PTS
THE NUMBER REPRESENTING THE SPEED OF SOUND IS NAMED AFTER E. TITCHENER FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IN PHYSICS.
TRUE
CORRECT!
FALSE
1 / 1 PTS
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF FUNCTIONALISM.
CORRECT!
TRUE
FALSE
0 / 1 PTS
THE VERY INTENT TO OBSERVE X, YOU ALTER THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS YOU ARE TRYING TO OBSERVE. THIS SUGGESTS THAT THERE MAY BE
CORRECT ANSWER
CONTAMINATION
AMBIGUITY
YOU ANSWERED
CONFOUNDS
NONE OF THE CHOICES
1 / 1 PTS
THIS IS THE CORNERSTONE OF FUNCTIONALISM.
CORRECT!
PRAGMATISM
CONSEQUENCES
TRUTH
NONE OF THE OTHER OPTIONS
1 / 1 PTS
THIS RESEARCHER EXAMINED THE AREA OF LEARNING.
CORRECT!
KOHLER
KOFFKA
WERTHEIMER
JAMES
1 / 1 PTS
TITCHENER DEFINED ____ AS THE SUM TOTAL OF MENTAL EXPERIENCE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
THE MIND
CORRECT!
THE CONSCIOUSNESS
THE APPERCEPTIVE MASS
GENERAL IMPRESSION
0 / 1 PTS
WHICH ITEM IS NOT A COMPONENT OF STRUCTURALISM?
FOCUS ON ELEMENTS
EXAMINE THE COMPONENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
CORRECT ANSWER
FOCUS ON THE ORGANIZATION OF ELEMENTS
YOU ANSWERED
ASSOCIATION GIVES MEANING TO SENSATIONS
1 / 1 PTS
WILLIAM JAMES DOUBTS THE EXISTENCE OF ABSOLUTE OR OBJECTIVE TRUTH.
CORRECT!
TRUE
FALSE
0 / 1 PTS
WILLIAM JAMES VIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS AS EXPERIENCE IN CONTINUOUS FLUX BEST RESEMBLES
CORRECT ANSWER
HUME'S NOTION OF SELF (BUNDLE THEORY)
LOCKE'S VIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY
YOU ANSWERED
DESCARTES' DUALISM
BERKELEY'S PERCEPTION
1 / 1 PTS
WUNDT, THE FATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY SAW THAT EXPERIMENTATION WAS USEFUL TO EXAMINE BOTH BASIC AND COMPLEX PHENOMENA.
TRUE
CORRECT!
FALSE
