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,Chapter 1 Multiple-Choice ItemsMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Psychology’s intellectual parents are the disciplines of
a. physics and physiology.
b. philosophy and physiology.
c. chemistry and physics.
d. philosophy and chemistry.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
2. The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject
matter is
a. G. Stanley Hall.
b. René Descartes.
c. William James.
d. Wilhelm Wundt.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
3. Wundt defined psychology as
a. the scientific study of behavior.
b. the scientific study of the unconscious.
c. the scientific study of the brain.
d. the scientific study of conscious experience.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
3. The notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of conscious
experience is MOST closely linked with
a. William James.
b. Wilhelm Wundt.
c. Sigmund Freud.
d. John B. Watson.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
TOP: WWW DIF: Understand
4. According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of psychology was on the scientific study of
a. observable behavior.
b. conscious experience.
c. unconscious motivation.
d. the functions of behavior.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
5. While the term psychology has existed since at least the early 1700s, psychology did not come to be
considered a science until
a. the 1750s.
b. the early 1800s.
c. the late 1800s.
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, d. the 1940s.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
6. In a discussion with your professor, she tells you that she believes that the focus of psychological
study should be to break the conscious experience into its basic elements. Which of the following
historical schools of thought is your professor’s idea MOST consistent with?
a. Behaviorism
b. Functionalism
c. Structuralism
d. Psychoanalysis
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
7. The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of
conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images, was
a. humanism.
b. behaviorism.
c. structuralism.
d. functionalism.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
8. If while watching an exquisite sunset you stop and analyze your sensations, thoughts, and feelings,
you would be performing introspection as the ____ once did.
a. structuralists
b. behaviorists
c. functionalists
d. psychoanalysts
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
9. Isabel is listening to a piece of classical music and tape recording all her feelings and impressions as
she experiences them. Isabel is using a technique similar to the research methodology of
a. structuralism.
b. functionalism.
c. behaviorism.
d. humanism.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
10. In an attempt to learn something about his conscious experience, William looked at an abstract
painting and wrote down all of his impressions as they came to him. This technique is called
a. introspection.
b. retrospection.
c. empiricism.
d. psychoanalysis.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
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, 11. Dr. Asgaard believes that in order to fully understand complex processes, such as auditory processing,
it is first necessary to understand all the separate component parts. Dr. Asgaard’s views are MOST
consistent with those of
a. William James.
b. Ivan Pavlov.
c. Carl Rogers.
d. Edward Titchener.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
12. The school of psychology associated with understanding the purpose of behavior was
a. functionalism.
b. behaviorism.
c. neodynamism.
d. psychoanalysis.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Understand
NOTES: Correct = 44%
13. Dr. Smythe believes that in order to fully understand complex processes, such as taste, it is necessary
to understand the purpose that taste plays in human adaptation, not the elementary components that
combine to produce taste sensations. Dr. Smythe’s views are MOST consistent with
a. the behaviorist approach to psychology.
b. the functionalist approach to psychology.
c. the structuralist approach to psychology.
d. the psychoanalytic approach to psychology.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
14. Dr. Rice believes that it is not possible to fully understand emotions unless we understand the purpose
that the conscious experiences associated with emotions play in survival and adaptation. Dr. Rice’s
views are MOST consistent with those of
a. Edward Titchener.
b. Ivan Pavlov.
c. Carl Rogers.
d. William James.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History
DIF: Apply
15. The term used by William James to describe a continuous flow of thoughts was
a. existential awareness.
b. stream of consciousness.
c. transcendental meditation.
d. phenomenological flow.
ANS: B PTS: 1
REF: 1.1 Psychology’s Early History DIF: Understand
NOTES: Correct = 98%
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