Historical Psychology MCQ
1. In fechner's law as one variable increases arithmetically, the other variable increases ____.
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Geometrically
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2. In contrast to the events that are studied in science, historical events cannot be ____.
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3. Titchener argued that psychology is unique among the sciences because ____.
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Psychology alone is dependent on experiencing persons
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4. The ____ method is described as a type of posthumous extirpation.
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5. With titchener's structuralism as an idea to oppose, psychology ____.
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Moved far beyond his initial boundaries
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6. The hallmark of psychology's separation from philosophy was its reliance on ____.
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Experimentation
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7. Watson's position on verbal reports was ____.
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All of the choices are correct.
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8. Watson proposed that society as a whole could be improved by ____.
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Replacing religion-based ethics with experimental ethics
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9. Titchener spent most of his career at ____.
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Cornell University
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10. The notion of secondary qualities was proposed by locke to explain ____.
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The distinction between the physical world and one's experience of it
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11. The hallmark of woodworth's psychology was his ____.
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Focus on motivation
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12. Mcdougall's arguments against watson included that ____.
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Humans had free will
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13. Mcdougall was especially critical of watson's ____.
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Determinism
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14. The question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities refers to ____.
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The mind-body
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15. German universities were especially fertile ground for scientific advances because ____.
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There was academic freedom for students and faculty alike
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16. Galton's measures of intellectual functioning assumed correlation between intelligence and ____.
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Acuteness of the senses
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17. The two most important contributions of titchener's system to modern psychology are ____.
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His experimental method and a strong position to protest
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18. Dewey's analysis of ____ was the work that most keenly protested structuralism.
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Reflex arc
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19. Thorndike's revision of his law of effect stated that ____.
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Punishing a response weakened a connection but not to the same degree that rewards strengthened a connection
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20. For watson, such subject matter as mind, consciousness, and images was ____.
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Meaningless for a science of psychology.
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21. The third stage of behaviorism refers to ____.
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Sociobehaviorism
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22. Rotter has suggested that locus of control ____.
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Is acquired in childhood
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23. The use of positive reinforcement to control the behavior of individuals and groups is called ____.
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Behavior modification
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24. Ebbinghaus's focus of study was on the ____.
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Initial formation of associations
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25. The practice of psychosurgery such as prefrontal lobotomies, has its roots in the ____.
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Extirpation method
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26. The most important research method of the behaviorists was ____.
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The conditioned reflex method
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27. For watson, introspection was ____.
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Irrelevant
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28. For pavlov, humans and animals were ____.
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29. An involuntary response is to ________ .
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