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Historiography is: - correct answer ✔✔the study of the proper way to write history
Behavioral psychologists maintain that the same principles govern the behavior of both humans and
nonhuman animals. - correct answer ✔✔True
A psychologist who believes that human behavior is indeed determined but the causes can never be
accurately known would be a(n): - correct answer ✔✔Indeterminist
Explaining phenomena after they have already occurred is called: - correct answer ✔✔Postdiction
The ____ stresses a person's beliefs, emotions, perceptions, values, and goals as determinants of
behavior. - correct answer ✔✔psychical determinist
If any conceivable observation supports a theory, Popper would conclude that the theory is: - correct
answer ✔✔Weak
Zeitgeist means: - correct answer ✔✔The spirit of the times
The position that states that mental and physiological reactions are two aspects of the same experience
and cannot be separated is called: - correct answer ✔✔Double aspectism
Two general classes of scientific laws are correlational laws and causal laws. - correct answer ✔✔True
The ultimate authority of science has always been: - correct answer ✔✔Empirical observation
,As discussed in the book, there are several reasons to study the history of psychology. Which of the
following is not one of those discussed in the book? - correct answer ✔✔To see how psychology fits into
social/cultural history
The ____ assumes that everything that occurs is a function of a finite number of causes. - correct answer
✔✔Determinist
Zeitgeist is described as "spirit of the times." - correct answer ✔✔True
Popper and Kuhn agree completely on their views of normal science. - correct answer ✔✔Kuhn
Believing that because something has a name it also has independent existence is called: - correct
answer ✔✔Reification
A consistently observed relationship between two or more classes of empirical events defines a: - correct
answer ✔✔Scientific law
Both nativists and empiricists emphasize the role of experience in explanations of origins of human
attributes. - correct answer ✔✔False
The ____ tends to assume that the human mind takes in information actively - correct answer
✔✔Rationalist
The view that cognitive events that emerge from brain activity can cause behavior is representative of: -
correct answer ✔✔Interactionism
A scientific theory has several functions. Which of the following is not a function of scientific theory? -
correct answer ✔✔to guide the scientist in rational descriptions
When behavior results from many causes, we say that it is: - correct answer ✔✔Overdetermined
The study of knowledge is called: - correct answer ✔✔Epistemology
,Popper saw scientific method as involving 3 stages. Which of the following is not one of the stages? -
correct answer ✔✔Pre-study analysis They are problem, theories, and criticism
According to the author of your text, which of the following would not be part of the response to the
question, "Is psychology a science?" - correct answer ✔✔all of these choices are appropriate answers:
some aspects of psychology are scientific, some aspects of psychology will probably never be scientific,
and some aspects of psychology are not yet scientific but someday they may be
Who believes that science cannot be characterized by any set of prescribed methods, principles, or
rules? - correct answer ✔✔Feyerabend
The ____ believes that because cognitive processes such as intentions, values, and beliefs intervene
between experience and behavior, humans are responsible for their actions. - correct answer ✔✔Soft
determinist
Historicism refers to the belief that: - correct answer ✔✔the past should be studied for its own sake
without attempting to show the relationship between past and present
Some believe that although cognitive events are a result of brain activity, such events cannot cause
behavior. - correct answer ✔✔Such a belief represents:Epiphenomenalism
The prediction and control of events can best be accomplished using: - correct answer ✔✔Causal laws
For Popper, a nonscientific theory: - correct answer ✔✔Can still be useful
During the pre-paradigmatic stage of the development of a science: - correct answer ✔✔rival camps
compete with each other for dominion of the discipline
According to Kuhn, all of the following are true of normal science except: - correct answer ✔✔it
stimulates the creative search for novel phenomena
Nondeterminism requires that a person is responsible for their behavior. - correct answer ✔✔True
, According to Popper, scientific activity begins: - correct answer ✔✔With a problem
The position on the mind-body question claiming that both mental events and bodily responses occur
simultaneously even though the two events are independent of each other is called: - correct answer
✔✔Psychophysical parallelism
____ promotes that life can never be completely explained in terms of material things and mechanical
laws - correct answer ✔✔Vitalism
The claim that God arranges for mental and bodily events to be perfectly coordinated is called: - correct
answer ✔✔Preestablished harmony
One of the most perplexing concepts in the history of philosophy science has been: - correct answer
✔✔Causation
To avoid the almost unending search that would result if one attempted to document all of the factors
that caused a historical event, your author maintains that any history must be: - correct answer
✔✔Selective
Which of the following represents a dualistic position on the mind-body question? - correct answer
✔✔Epiphenomenalism
Rationalists postulate a passive mind. - correct answer ✔✔False
____ stresses the emotional or unconscious determinants of human behavior. - correct answer
✔✔Irrationalism
The belief that human behavior is determined but the causes of behavior cannot be accurately measured
is called: - correct answer ✔✔uncertainty principle
____ describe how classes of events vary together in some systematic way. - correct answer
✔✔Correlational laws
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