Psychology Chapter 1 Key Concept Quiz
1. The philosophical idea that all mental processes in the mind are reducible to physical processes in the brain is known as: a. philosophical materialism b. philosophical nativism c. philosophical empiricism d. philosophical realism 2. Introspection is one of the primary methods of: a. idealism b. structuralism c. behaviorism d. Gestalt psychology 3. Which of these people most influenced functionalism?
a. Skinner b. Freud c. Darwin d. Pavlov
4. Psychoanalysis is meant to help people...
a. isolate the basic elements of conscious experience b. respond to stimuli c. obtain reinforcements d. attain insight into their unconscious minds
5. John Watson thought behaviorism...
a. was the right way to study animals but the wrong way to study people b. should consider the evolutionary history of the organism c. would make psychology an objective science d. could provide glimpses into a person’s unconscious mind
6. B.F. Skinner’s principle of reinforcement explains...
a. the emergence of cultural psychology b. why lights can appear to be moving even when they really aren’t c. why structuralism failed d. how behavior is shaped by its consequences
7. The American psychologists who resisted behaviorism in the early 1900s were...
a. social psychologists b. neuroscientists c. evolutionary psychologists d. philosophical dualists
8. The cognitive revolution was made possible by...
a. Chomsky’s critique of Pavlov b. the advent of the digital computer c. the invention of fMRI d. the invention of the Skinner box
9. John Garcia’s experiments showing that rats quickly learn to associate nausea with the taste of food...
a. were important to establishing behaviorism in America b. led to his dismissal from his university c. helped bring about evolutionary psychology d. helped bring about cultural psychology
10. Two new areas of psychology that have emerged in the 21st century are:
a. behavioral neuroscience and cultural psychology b. cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology c. Gestalt psychology and developmental psychology d. social psychology and cultural psychology
