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Where was Functionalism founded? |
| | A) | University of Leipzig |
| | B) | University of Chicago |
| | C) | Columbia University |
| | D) | Harvard University |
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Dewey went to graduate school at ____________, and __________ was a fellow student there. |
| | A) | Leipzig; Hall |
| | B) | Johns Hopkins; Hall |
| | C) | Johns Hopkins; Cattell |
| | D) | Harvard; Cattell |
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What unifying principle did Dewey propose for psychology? |
| | A) | The reflex arc |
| | B) | Newton’s theory of inertia |
| | C) | Recapitulation |
| | D) | The Law of Effect |
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Which of the following was not one of Dewey’s four basic psychological needs of a child? |
| | A) | Conversation |
| | B) | Cultivation |
| | C) | Curiosity |
| | D) | Construction |
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What was “Hull-House”? |
| | A) | A school set up by Dewey |
| | B) | The nickname of Chicago’s political ringleaders |
| | C) | A Chicago community center |
| | D) | The psychology laboratory at Clark University |
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Dewey’s immediate successor at Chicago was ____________. |
| | A) | Woodworth |
| | B) | Carr |
| | C) | Angell |
| | D) | Thorndike |
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What problem prevented Angell from earning a Ph.D.? |
| | A) | His dissertation research was inadequate |
| | B) | He was unable to come up with a dissertation topic |
| | C) | He did not have sufficient command of the German language |
| | D) | He left graduate school to fight in WWI |
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Which school of psychology is most clearly influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution? |
| | A) | Functionalism |
| | B) | Structuralism |
| | C) | Behaviorism |
| | D) | Gestalt psychology |
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Which Chicago functionalist conducted research in both visual perception and animal consciousness? |
| | A) | Carr |
| | B) | Dewey |
| | C) | Angell |
| | D) | Woodworth |
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Who of the following is not considered a Chicago functionalist? |
| | A) | Carr |
| | B) | Dewey |
| | C) | Angell |
| | D) | Woodworth |
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Woodworth conducted experiments on _______ in order to investigate the legitimacy of _______. |
| | A) | imageless thought; functionalism |
| | B) | maze learning; behaviorism |
| | C) | perception; psychophysics |
| | D) | transfer of training; formal discipline |
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Who supervised the psychometric testing of nearly 1,100 people at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904? |
| | A) | Woodworth |
| | B) | Thorndike |
| | C) | Cattell |
| | D) | Galton |
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Woodworth stressed that any attempt to measure intelligence must include ______. |
| | A) | multiple measures over a lengthy time frame |
| | B) | a consideration of the person’s context |
| | C) | direct, rather than indirect, measures of mental fitness |
| | D) | All of the above |
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Psychometric analysis of Babe Ruth at Columbia found his skills to be |
| | A) | far better than average |
| | B) | surprisingly average |
| | C) | far worse than average |
| | D) | entirely physical, and not mental |
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Woodworth’s monumental ____________ took nearly twenty years to write, but then became a standard text for nearly twenty years, too. |
| | A) | History of Experimental Psychology |
| | B) | Experimental Psychology |
| | C) | Principles of Psychology |
| | D) | Principles of Physiological Psychology |
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Woodworth’s motivational psychology stressed ______, a term which he introduced. |
| | A) | Incentives |
| | B) | Reinforcements |
| | C) | Drives |
| | D) | Secondary rewards |
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What problem(s) do psychologists have in describing the phenomena they study, according to Woodworth? |
| | A) | The phenomena are primarily hypothetical constructs |
| | B) | The phenomena are impossible to quantify |
| | C) | Psychologists don’t have their own specific and exclusive technical vocabulary |
| | D) | All of the Above |
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Thorndike’s first independent research project, inspired by James, was on the topic of ____. |
| | A) | imageless thought |
| | B) | mind reading |
| | C) | habit |
| | D) | emotion |
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Thorndike’s general principle of learning, which was developed through his research on animals in puzzle boxes, is called (the) |
| | A) | principle of parsimony |
| | B) | transfer of training |
| | C) | law of mass action |
| | D) | law of effect |
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As his career developed, Thorndike spent more and more time in the field of ____. |
| | A) | comparative psychology |
| | B) | educational psychology |
| | C) | behaviorism |
| | D) | clinical psychology |
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In addition to his psychological research, Thorndike |
| | A) | compiled lists of frequently-used words |
| | B) | rated the qualities of American cities |
| | C) | developed user-friendly dictionaries |
| | D) | All of the Above |
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