Question 1

​Important personal papers by ____ have been misplaced for decades or more.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Ebbinghaus
B)  Fechner
C)  ​Darwin
D)  All of the choices are correct.
E)  None of the choices are correct.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 2

The editors and editorial boards of journals in psychology are composed of people eminent in their specialty areas and likely to subscribe to tradition and their own viewpoints.Thus,new knowledge may not be published if it is revolutionary.This situation illustrates which theory?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Zeitgeist
B)  personalistic
C)  ​naturalistic
D)  Ortgeist
E)  evolutionF) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

Even when some women were admitted to graduate programs in psychology,they still encountered many barriers to their success,such as ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​being barred from some laboratory facilities
B)  being prevented from using graduate library facilities
C)  ​being unable to eat in graduate cafeterias
D)  not being allowed to participate in some seminar topics
E)  All of the choices are correctF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

​Define "school of thought" and discuss it in terms of Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigms in scientific evolution.

Accepted Answer

A school of thought refers to a particul...

Question 5

Darwin and Wallace developed similar theories of evolution independently;Newton and Leibnitz developed the calculus independently;Twitmyer discovered "Pavlovian" conditioning before Pavlov did.Such independent discoveries are attributed to which theory?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​syncopated
B)  personalistic
C)  ​naturalistic
D)  Ortgeist
E)  evolutionF) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 6

​The school of thought that focuses on the processes of knowing and thus represents a return to the study of conscious processes is the ____ school.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​structuralist
B)  functionalist
C)  ​Gestalt
D)  cognitive
E)  humanisticF) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 7

​The terms id,ego,and superego were improperly translated from German.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The effects of the Zeitgeist in inhibiting or delaying the dissemination and/or acceptance of a discovery operate at a cultural level but also within a science itself.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

​As a scientific discipline,psychology is ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​one of the newest
B)  one of the oldest
C)  ​the only one to have started in the United States
D)  one of the newest and one of the oldest
E)  None of the choices are correctF) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 10

According to your text,it was so difficult for Jewish psychologists to get a job that some resorted to ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​only applying to traditionally Jewish colleges and universities
B)  changing their religion
C)  ​lying about their religion
D)  changing their name to something that didn't seem JewishE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 11

Kuhn (1970) defines a paradigm as ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​an instance of agreement on theory and methodology by the science's practitioners.
B)  a model that describes a scientific phenomenon.
C)  ​a model that explains a scientific phenomenon.
D)  the reconciliation of disparate views on the proper subject matter of the field.
E)  the ultimate goal of any science but which is an ideal and will never be realized.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

A wave of employment possibilities in applied psychology in the first two decades of the 20th century was partly due to ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​700% increases in public school enrollment
B)  more money being spent on defense than on education
C)  ​the rise of the Veteran's administration Hospital system
D)  less money being spent on education than on defense and welfare combined
E)  All of the choices are correctF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 13

Which theory suggests that "the times make the person"?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​naturalistic
B)  personalistic
C)  ​nativist
D)  particularistic
E)  panpsychicF) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

​Discuss and give one example of each of the contextual forces that influenced the development of psychology.

Accepted Answer

The development of psychology has been i...

Question 15

​Reconstruction refers to the principles,methods,and philosophical issues of historical research.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The school of thought that deals with how the conscious mind enables and facilitates one's adaptation to one's environment is the ____ school.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​structuralist
B)  functionalist
C)  ​Gestalt
D)  humanistic
E)  cognitiveF) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 17

Regardless of how objective a science and its practitioners are alleged to be,that science will be influenced by the ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​scientists' political beliefs
B)  scientists' religious beliefs
C)  ​policies of the government that funds that science's research
D)  contextual forces of the time
E)  amount of funding it receivesF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 18

​Define historiography.How do the data of history differ from the data of science? Name and describe the three major difficulties involved in recalling and presenting the data of history.

Accepted Answer

Historiography is the study of the metho...

Question 19

Currently,psychology ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​has reached the paradigmatic stage
B)  has been described as a sequence of failed paradigms
C)  ​may be more fragmented than at any time in its history
D)  has been described as a sequence of failed paradigms and may be more fragmented than at any time in its history
E)  None of the choices are correctF) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

Who conducted a research program on racial identity and self-concept issues for Black children that was cited in the 1954 Supreme Court decision to end racial segregation in public schools?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Francis Sumner
B)  James Bayton
C)  ​Inez Prosser
D)  Kenneth and Mamie Clark
E)  none of the choices are correctF) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

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The editors and editorial boards of journals in psychology are composed of people eminent in their specialty areas and likely to subscribe to tradition and their own viewpoints.Thus,new knowledge may not be published if it is revolutionary.This situation illustrates which theory?​

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The effects of the Zeitgeist in inhibiting or delaying the dissemination and/or acceptance of a discovery operate at a cultural level but also within a science itself.

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