An Introduction To The History Of Psychology 7th Edition By B. R. Hergenhahn – Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. During which stage of early American psychology was the statement “Psychology exists for the sake of logic, and logic for the sake of God” true?
a. Stage One: moral and mental philosophy
b. Stage Two: intellectual philosophy

c. Stage Three: the U. S. Renaissance

d. Stage Four: U. S. functionalism

ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: conceptual
REFERENCES: Early U.S. Psychology

2. Sahakian marks the beginning of the school of functionalism with the publication of:
a. Dewey’s article “The Reflex Arc in Psychology”

b. James’s book The Principles of Psychology

c. Stewart’s book Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

d. The first issue of the American Journal of Psychology

ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: factual
REFERENCES: Early U.S. Psychology

3. Who, among the following, is most associated with naive realism?
a. Hume

b. Reid

c. FitzRoy

d. Locke

ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: factual
REFERENCES: Early U.S. Psychology
NOTES: new

4. Structuralists are to the contents of the mind as functionalists are to the:
a. psychology of the mind
b. function of the mind

c. neurology of the mind

d. philosophy of the mind
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: conceptual
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology
NOTES: new

5. When studying humans, James felt that:
a. we must use scientific introspection

b. the scientific method is the only method that could yield useful information
c. both a scientific and philosophical approach must be used

d. we must use the deductive rationalistic approach

ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: application
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology

6. According to pragmatism:
a. there are two types of statements: scientific and nonsensical

b. if something cannot be measured, it does not exist

c. an idea should be evaluated in terms of its usefulness

d. it is free will that distinguishes humans from nonhuman animals
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: factual
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology

7. According to James’s ____, all consistently reported aspects of human experience were worthy of study.
a. radical empiricism

b. religion

c. positivism

d. materialism

ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: application
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology

8. According to James, the most important thing about consciousness was that it was:
a. personal

b. continuous
c. selective

d. functional

ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: factual
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology

9. According to James, what keeps people working at boring jobs and also keeps the social strata from mixing?
a. free will

b. habit

c. pragmatism

d. the stream of consciousness
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: application
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology

10. For James, the spiritual self:
a. is that part of you known only to God

b. consists of everything a persons owns

c. cannot be know by the person except through God
d. consists of the person’s states of consciousness

ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: application
REFERENCES: Characteristics of Functional Psychology