PSYCH 405 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A course in the history of psychology is useful because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅it helps us to understand
why modern psychology has so many different movements, it helps to integrate the areas and issues
that constitute modern psychology, it provides a fascinating story on its own
The feature of modern psychology that distinguishes it from its antecedents is its - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅methodology
In contrast to the events that are studied in science, historical events cannot be - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅repeated
At least one of Freud's biographers downplayed the extent of Freud's cocaine use. This is an example of
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅misrepresentation intended to protect Freud's reputation
To guard against self-serving data and to assess the truth of a person's recollections and reports of
events in the history of psychology, the historian should, whenever possible, - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅collect data from other observers
The term "Zeitgeist" refers to - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the intellectual and cultural climate of the times
According to the text, psychology as a discipline has - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅engaged in the
discriminatory practices that mark American culture as a whole
"The man makes the times," reflects which view of history? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅personalistic
In the first years of psychology's emergence as a new discipline, which man determined its direction? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wilhelm Wundt
A school of thought emerges whenever - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a group shares a theoretical orientation
and investigates similar problems
, The Zeitgeist of the 17th- to 19th-century Europe and of the United States was marked by - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅mechanism
What invention was considered the perfect metaphor for the "spirit of mechanism"? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅clock
the pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to
experience is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅empiricism
Descartes was significant to psychology as a science because he helped liberate - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅science from the stranglehold of theology
Before Descartes, the accepted point of view was that the interaction between mind and body was
essentially unidirectional, that - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the mind influenced the body
Which of the following is an example of an innate idea? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅infinity
In eyewitness testimony, one swears that what one has observed accurately depicts reality. Because this
"fact" has not been determined through the methods of science, it does not meet Comtes' strictest
application of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅positivism
John Locke disagreed with the doctrine of innate ideas. According to Locke, - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the
mind is a blank slate at birth; therefore, there are no innate ideas
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, a sound will still occur because God is the
permanent perceiver of all objects in the universe." This argument illustrates the position of - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Berkeley
Complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities. This is a definition of - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅John Stuart Mill's creative synthesis
A course in the history of psychology is useful because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅it helps us to understand
why modern psychology has so many different movements, it helps to integrate the areas and issues
that constitute modern psychology, it provides a fascinating story on its own
The feature of modern psychology that distinguishes it from its antecedents is its - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅methodology
In contrast to the events that are studied in science, historical events cannot be - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅repeated
At least one of Freud's biographers downplayed the extent of Freud's cocaine use. This is an example of
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅misrepresentation intended to protect Freud's reputation
To guard against self-serving data and to assess the truth of a person's recollections and reports of
events in the history of psychology, the historian should, whenever possible, - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅collect data from other observers
The term "Zeitgeist" refers to - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the intellectual and cultural climate of the times
According to the text, psychology as a discipline has - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅engaged in the
discriminatory practices that mark American culture as a whole
"The man makes the times," reflects which view of history? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅personalistic
In the first years of psychology's emergence as a new discipline, which man determined its direction? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wilhelm Wundt
A school of thought emerges whenever - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a group shares a theoretical orientation
and investigates similar problems
, The Zeitgeist of the 17th- to 19th-century Europe and of the United States was marked by - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅mechanism
What invention was considered the perfect metaphor for the "spirit of mechanism"? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅clock
the pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to
experience is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅empiricism
Descartes was significant to psychology as a science because he helped liberate - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅science from the stranglehold of theology
Before Descartes, the accepted point of view was that the interaction between mind and body was
essentially unidirectional, that - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the mind influenced the body
Which of the following is an example of an innate idea? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅infinity
In eyewitness testimony, one swears that what one has observed accurately depicts reality. Because this
"fact" has not been determined through the methods of science, it does not meet Comtes' strictest
application of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅positivism
John Locke disagreed with the doctrine of innate ideas. According to Locke, - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the
mind is a blank slate at birth; therefore, there are no innate ideas
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, a sound will still occur because God is the
permanent perceiver of all objects in the universe." This argument illustrates the position of - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Berkeley
Complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities. This is a definition of - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅John Stuart Mill's creative synthesis
