Practice exam of partial exam 1 of the course Fundamentals of Psychology. Exists of a combination of multiple choice and open questions (3o in total), including answers to all these questions.
Practice exam for Fundamentals of Psychology, partial exam 2
Fundamentals of Psychology; Book and Lecture Notes Interim Exam 2
Lecture Notes Interim Exam 2 Fundamentals Of Psychology Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
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1. Descartes and Berkeley have in common that they both
(a) argued that reason is the primary source of knowledge.
(b) came to the conclusion that there is no material external world.
(c) believed that the mind is immaterial.
2. An important objection of Auguste Comte to introspection as a scientific method, was that
(a) in introspection there is no distinction between the observer
and the observed.
(b) introspection is particularly sensitive to human biases.
(c) it is impossible to hold mental states constant; consciousness is
always in flux.
3. The historical method that Wundt used consisted of studying the human mind
(a) through introspection.
(b) by analyzing texts and other products of human culture.
(c) by tracing back the foundations of psychology in historical
literature.
4. Compared to Aristotle, Descartes' worldview was characterized by a strong emphasis on
(a) mind-body explanations.
(b) teleological explanations.
(c) mechanistic explanations.
5. Who does the following quote, about how knowledge is generated in newborn babies, belong
to?
“One may perceive how, by degrees, afterwards, ideas come into
their minds; and that they get no more, nor other, than what
experience, and the observation of things that come in their way,
furnish them with.”
, (a) Locke
(b) Leibniz
(c) Chomsky
6. Nowadays scientific readers are trained to question writings
critically. In the Middle Ages, the emphasis was much more on
being able to reproduce texts precisely in order to interpret them
within a fixed framework. The latter method is known as the
(a) method of Loci.
(b) scholastic method.
(c) copy principle.
7. In psychology it is regularly emphasized that we cannot infer
causality from correlation alone. This can clearly be traced back to
the ideas of
(a) David Hume.
(b) Alan Turing.
(c) William James.
8. In the famous analogy of cognitive psychology, mind is to brain as
(a) functional description is to computer.
(b) Turing machine is to formula.
(c) software is to hardware.
9. The Capgras delusion plays an important role in thinking about the
role of neuroscience in psychology. The psychoanalytic explanation
that Capgras gave for this delusion was ____ . In the neuroscientific
approach, however, this delusion is explained by damage to a brain
area that is responsible for ______ .
(a) an incestuous desire for her father; face recognition
(b) repressed feelings of aggression; sexual regulation
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