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Confessions, a volume about one man’s sins, confessions, and forgiveness, is written by:

A. St. Paul

B. St. Augustine

C. Thomas Aquinas

D. Avicenna

According to Jung, the ____ provided the feminine component of the male personality

and a framework within which males can interact with females.

A. persona

B. anima

C. animus

D. shadow

For Rousseau, the only justifiable government was one that:

A. controls behavior with incentives

B. allows humans to reach their full potential and express free will

C. allows people to express hedonistic pursuits

D. rules by categorical imperative

Who developed the concept of “language games”?

A. Kierkegaard

B. Nietzsche

C. Wittgenstein

D. Hume

According to proponents of strong artificial intelligence (AI), computer programs:

A. can only simulate human cognitive abilities

B. can duplicate human cognitive abilities

C. should be based on relevant information and rules of organization

D. use self-correcting programs that are not relevant to human cognition

Because Democritus attempted to explain events occurring in one domain (observable

phenomena) in terms of events occurring in another domain (the arrangements of

atoms), he is considered a(n):

A. elementist

B. reductionist

C. physicist

D. Orphist

When Watson finally outlined his behavioristic position, Titchener was not upset

because he (Titchener) believed that:

A. Watson had described a technology of behavior that did not conflict with psychology

proper

B. it was more or less the same thing that he (Titchener) had been saying for years

C. other psychologists would find Watson’s position silly

D. psychology was ready to become behavioristic

Which of the following did Darwin believe about human emotions?

A. Emotions are particularly important in modern society.

B. At one time in the course of human evolution, emotions aided in survival.

C. The expression of emotions is highly variable from culture to culture.

D. The emotions of humans are qualitatively different from the emotions of nonhuman

animals.

According to Khun, what happens during the paradigmatic stage of science?

a. Random facts are gathered.

b. Puzzle-solving activity occurs.

c. Existing paradigms are displaced.

d. Existing paradigms are solidified.

Freud originally concluded that young boys tend to love their mothers and hate their

fathers. This was called:

A. the Oedipus complex

B. psuedoaffection

C. parapraxal complex

D. cathartic complex

Above all, Cattell believed that psychology should:

A. concentrate on pure research

B. merge with biology

C. furnish practical knowledge

D. follow the model of structuralism and ignore evolutionary theory

Lashley:

A. was an opponent of Gestalt psychology

B. initially sought to support Watsonian behaviorism with neurophysiological evidence

C. found the engram – neurophysiological locus of memory and learning

D. disproved the concept of mass action

When stimuli are close together, they tend to be grouped together as a perceptual unit.

This exemplifies the Gestalt principle of:

A. continuity

B. proximity

C. similarity

D. closure

For Hering, space perception results from:

A. an innate category of the mind as Kant described

B. information from the retina about height, left-right position, and depth

C. innate ideas

D. sensory experience plus the laws of association

Hippocrates used which of the following treatments?

A. psychoanalysis

B. bloodletting

C. proper diet

D. trepanation

The major assumption made in the ontological argument for the existence of God is

that:

A. one can find God by studying nature

B. faith and reason are essentially the same process

C. if one can think of something, it must exist

D. the Aristotelian conception of God is the only correct conception of God

Mach believed that:

A. humans could be investigated objectively only by studying their overt behavior

B. introspection was worthless

C. humans could be certain only of their own sensations

D. all science depends on metaphysical speculation

The Skinnerian version of behavior therapy:

A. has yet to be used effectively

B. uses punishment extensively

C. believes that behavior must be altered with pharmacological agents

D. assumes that abnormal behavior is learned in the same way as any normal behavior

The job of the ____ is to match the wishes of the id with their counterparts in the

physical environment.

A. superego

B. ego

C. ego-ideal

D. conscience

As evidence for his views on verbal communication, Wundt pointed out that we

remember ____ and not ____.

A. specific words; meanings

B. meanings; specific words

C. verbal labels; images

D. images; verbal labels

For the Gestaltists, analysis of experience:

A. proceeds from the parts (bottom) to the whole (top)

B. is purely a physiological field analysis

C. must be broken down into its component parts

D. proceeds from the whole (top) to the parts (bottom)

Jesus can be best thought of as a(n):

A. philosopher with a focus on God

B. empathetic ruler

C. complex man with multifaceted goals

D. simple man with focused goals

The goal of the 1908 version of the Binet-Simon scale was to:

A. distinguish between normal and children with intellectual disabilities

B. distinguish among levels of intelligence for normal children

C. distinguish among levels of intelligence for children with intellectual disabilities

D. help children make reasonable career choices

Helmholtz’s theory of auditory perception is called the:

A. doctrine of specific nerve energies

B. resonance place theory

C. auditory harp theory

D. trichromatic theory

Goddard, along with several leading scientists of the day, believed that individuals with

intellectual disabilities should:

A. be given the same rights as any other citizen

B. not be allowed to hold even menial jobs

C. not be allowed to reproduce

D. be identified and placed in special education programs

According to Hartley, as ideas or stimuli came to elicit behaviors not originally

associated with them, ____ behavior was converted into ____ behavior.

A. voluntary; involuntary

B. involuntary; voluntary

C. basic; refined

D. refined; basic

John Stuart Mill’s concept of ____ emancipated associationistic psychology from the

strict mental mechanics proposed by James Mill and others.

A. free will

B. imagination

C. mental chemistry

D. utilitarianism

Who viewed life as consisting of opposing forces such as love and hate, or good and

evil?

A. Rousseau

B. Nietzsche

C. Goethe

D. Schopenhauer

Skinner was content to manipulate environmental events (such as reinforcement

contingencies) and note the effects of these manipulations on behavior. What is this

called?

A. functional behaviorism

B. radical behaviorism

C. descriptive behaviorism

D. logical behaviorism

Occam’s views were widely taught and can be viewed as the beginning of:

A. Cynicism

B. Stoicism

C. Scholasticism

D. empirical philosophy

What was Guthrie’s one rule for breaking undesirable habits?

A. Punish the behavior.

B. Reinforce the opposite of that behavior.

C. Ignore the behavior

D. Observe the stimuli that elicit the behavior and perform another act in the presence

of those stimuli.

Before Thomas Kuhn, scientific activity was guided by the:

a. paradigm shift theory

b. correspondence theory of truth

c. skepticism of knowledge theory

d. subjectivity theory of science