Thorne, B.M., & Henley, T. B. (2005). Connections in the history and systems of
psychology (3rd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin.
CHAPTER ONE:
1. One of the reasons for taking a course in history is that “Those who do not know history are
doomed to repeat it.” Who said this?
[A] George Santayana
[B] Thomas Kuhn
[C] William James
[D] E. G. Boring
2. In 1954, Hastorf and Cantril showed students from Dartmouth and Princeton film clips of the
football game between the two schools. Their study showed that
[A] the injury to the Princeton quarterback was accidental
[B] students who viewed the film were objective in their assessments of it
[C] Dartmouth players intentionally injured the Princeton quarterback
[D] a person’s perspective may alter that person’s perceptions
3. The tendency to analyze the past in terms of the time in which we live is called
[A] presentist bias
[B] Zeitgeist bias
[C] personalistic bias
[D] contemporary bias
4. Historian of psychology E. G. Boring got his restricted view of Wilhelm Wundt from
[A] E. B. Titchener
[B] Wilhelm Wundt himself
[C] Thomas Kuhn
[D] George Santayana
,5. The idea that discoveries and the people who make them are importantly influenced by the
historical context is called the
[A] Zeitgeist view of history
[B] personalistic view of history
[C] paradigm shift view of history
[D] presentist view of history
6. The independent discovery of calculus at about the same time by Leibniz and Newton
provides evidence for the
[A] personalistic theory of history
[B] paradigm shift theory of history
[C] great person theory of history
[D] Zeitgeist theory of history
7. The person who argued persuasively for the Zeitgeist theory of history was
[A] E. B. Titchener
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] John B. Watson
[D] Robert I. Watson
8. Charles Darwin was stimulated to publish his theory of evolution by a similar theory devised
by
[A] John Locke
[B] Isaac Newton
[C] Wilhelm Wundt
[D] Alfred Wallace
9. According to Neisser’s research, we tend to remember information about ourselves in ways
that
,[A] support our self-image
[B] help us gain advantages over others
[C] confirm our altruism
[D] support the personalistic view of history
10. Several researchers have traced the term psychology to
[A] Wilhelm Wundt
[B] Descartes
[C] Marcus Marulus
[D] Melanchthon
11. The historian of psychology who implemented the first degree program in the history of
psychology was
[A] G. S. Hall
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] R. I. Watson
[D] E. R. Hilgard
12. Psychology in America: A Historical Survey was written by
[A] E. G. Boring
[B] G. S. Hall
[C] E. R. Hilgard
[D] R. I. Watson
13. Cambridge ethologist Nicholas Humphrey believes that consciousness evolved for the
capacity to
[A] make tools
[B] invent language
, [C] discover and use fire
[D] do psychology
14. The famous line, “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history,” was written by
[A] G. S. Hall
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] H. Ebbinghaus
[D] W. Wundt
15. Psychology’s “short history” referred to its founding as a scientific discipline in the
[A] latter part of the 18th century
[B] first half of the 19th century
[C] latter half of the 19th century
[D] first decade of the 20th century
16. Materialism is a form of
[A] dualism
[B] double aspectism
[C] epiphenomenalism
[D] monism
17. The view that reality ultimately exists in the mind is called
[A] immaterialism
[B] materialism
[C] interactionism
[D] parallelism
18. The chief proponent of the idea that the physical world is irrelevant without a mind to
psychology (3rd ed.). New York: Houghton Mifflin.
CHAPTER ONE:
1. One of the reasons for taking a course in history is that “Those who do not know history are
doomed to repeat it.” Who said this?
[A] George Santayana
[B] Thomas Kuhn
[C] William James
[D] E. G. Boring
2. In 1954, Hastorf and Cantril showed students from Dartmouth and Princeton film clips of the
football game between the two schools. Their study showed that
[A] the injury to the Princeton quarterback was accidental
[B] students who viewed the film were objective in their assessments of it
[C] Dartmouth players intentionally injured the Princeton quarterback
[D] a person’s perspective may alter that person’s perceptions
3. The tendency to analyze the past in terms of the time in which we live is called
[A] presentist bias
[B] Zeitgeist bias
[C] personalistic bias
[D] contemporary bias
4. Historian of psychology E. G. Boring got his restricted view of Wilhelm Wundt from
[A] E. B. Titchener
[B] Wilhelm Wundt himself
[C] Thomas Kuhn
[D] George Santayana
,5. The idea that discoveries and the people who make them are importantly influenced by the
historical context is called the
[A] Zeitgeist view of history
[B] personalistic view of history
[C] paradigm shift view of history
[D] presentist view of history
6. The independent discovery of calculus at about the same time by Leibniz and Newton
provides evidence for the
[A] personalistic theory of history
[B] paradigm shift theory of history
[C] great person theory of history
[D] Zeitgeist theory of history
7. The person who argued persuasively for the Zeitgeist theory of history was
[A] E. B. Titchener
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] John B. Watson
[D] Robert I. Watson
8. Charles Darwin was stimulated to publish his theory of evolution by a similar theory devised
by
[A] John Locke
[B] Isaac Newton
[C] Wilhelm Wundt
[D] Alfred Wallace
9. According to Neisser’s research, we tend to remember information about ourselves in ways
that
,[A] support our self-image
[B] help us gain advantages over others
[C] confirm our altruism
[D] support the personalistic view of history
10. Several researchers have traced the term psychology to
[A] Wilhelm Wundt
[B] Descartes
[C] Marcus Marulus
[D] Melanchthon
11. The historian of psychology who implemented the first degree program in the history of
psychology was
[A] G. S. Hall
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] R. I. Watson
[D] E. R. Hilgard
12. Psychology in America: A Historical Survey was written by
[A] E. G. Boring
[B] G. S. Hall
[C] E. R. Hilgard
[D] R. I. Watson
13. Cambridge ethologist Nicholas Humphrey believes that consciousness evolved for the
capacity to
[A] make tools
[B] invent language
, [C] discover and use fire
[D] do psychology
14. The famous line, “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history,” was written by
[A] G. S. Hall
[B] E. G. Boring
[C] H. Ebbinghaus
[D] W. Wundt
15. Psychology’s “short history” referred to its founding as a scientific discipline in the
[A] latter part of the 18th century
[B] first half of the 19th century
[C] latter half of the 19th century
[D] first decade of the 20th century
16. Materialism is a form of
[A] dualism
[B] double aspectism
[C] epiphenomenalism
[D] monism
17. The view that reality ultimately exists in the mind is called
[A] immaterialism
[B] materialism
[C] interactionism
[D] parallelism
18. The chief proponent of the idea that the physical world is irrelevant without a mind to
