AU - PSYC 375 Unit 4 Exam Practice Questions and Answers

AU - PSYC 375 Unit 4 Exam Practice Questions and Answers Who was the first African-American in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in psychology? - ANSWERSumner According to Carr, an adaptive act consisted of all of the following except: - ANSWERBehavioural reflexes which were automatically triggered by environmental stimuli. James referred to individuals who were intellectual, idealistic, religious, and who believed in free will as: - ANSWERTender-minded In his writing on forensic psychology, Munsterberg did all of the following except: - ANSWERProposed that suggestion and stress do not affect perception. Which of the following is not a characteristic of James' stream of consciousness? - ANSWERIt can be divided up for analysis Hall's legacy includes all of the following except: - ANSWERThe first experimental lab in psychology Munsterberg's efforts did much to create: - ANSWERIndustrial Psychology ©EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/7 According to James, a person could increase his or her self-esteem by: - ANSWERBoth succeeding more and attempting Which psychologist's research was instrumental in the 1954 court decision on school desegregation? - ANSWERKenneth Clark For James, tough-minded people are all of the following except: - ANSWERDogmatic Pavlov called the stimuli (CSs) that come to signal biologically significant events the: - ANSWERFirst- Signal System For Watson, the goal of psychology was to: - ANSWERPredict and control behaviour Watson's final position on instincts was that: - ANSWERHumans had no instincts Bechterev claimed that _______ was the founder of behaviouristic psychology. - ANSWERHe When a previously neutral stimulus elicits some fraction of an unconditioned response, the reaction is called: - ANSWERA conditioned response (CR) Watson's objective psychology had all of the following in common with Russian objective psychology except: - ANSWERAn interest in brain psychology Pavlov speculated that much human abnormal behaviour was caused by: - ANSWERA breakdown of inhibitory processes in the brain ©EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/7 Pavlov used the term cortical mosaic to describe: - ANSWERThe pattern of excitation and inhibition that characterized the brain at any given moment By systematically moving a feared rabbit closer and closer to Peter as Peter ate lunch, Watson and Jones: - ANSWERBoth made use of procedures later called behaviour therapy and eliminated Peter's fear of the rabbit and reduced his fear of related objects. Watson allowed for some influence of genetics on personality by saying that _______ interacted with experience to produce specific behaviour patterns. - ANSWERBodily structure The results of the experiment run by Tolman and Honzik in 1930 indicated that: - ANSWERAnimals learned constantly, but only translated what had been learned into behaviour when there was an incentive to do so. In all of the applications of Skinnerian principles, which of the following general rules is always the same? - ANSWERChange reinforcement contingencies and you change behaviour For Skinner, the environment was important because it: - ANSWERSelected behaviour through reinforcement contingencies Tolman's influence on contemporary psychology can be clearly seen in the work of the: - ANSWERInformation-processing psychologist