Question 1

It was significant to the development of behaviorism by later functionalists that James rejected introspection as a method.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

A method long attributed to Hall,albeit erroneously,is ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​genetic engineering
B)  the laboratory school
C)  ​the use of questionnaires
D)  introspection by recapitulation
E)  retrospection with children and adolescents

Question 3

William James used the term "stream of consciousness" to indicate ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​that the analysis of consciousness into mental elements is difficult but possible
B)  that the use of introspection to study consciousness is possible
C)  ​that consciousness is not as important as the unconscious in controlling behavior since consciousness is always changing
D)  that the changing nature of consciousness prevents its analysis into mental elements
E)  that unconscious thoughts can be accessed through free association

Question 4

For James,what was most essential to human evolution?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​natural selection
B)  natural variations of a species
C)  ​survival of the fittest
D)  regression to the mean
E)  consciousness

Question 5

In his most significant work in psychology,Dewey rejected the reductionism of the natural sciences and of the European philosophies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Functionalism is said to have been indirectly founded by ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Titchener
B)  James
C)  ​Dewey
D)  Angell
E)  Calkins

Question 7

Who had an interest in mystical events or what we call parapsychology?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Hollerith
B)  James
C)  ​Dewey
D)  Hollingworth
E)  Spencer

Question 8

Hall may be the best representative of the earliest roots of modern psychology in that his education included ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​philosophy
B)  physiology
C)  ​physics
D)  All of the choices are correct.
E)  None of the choices are correct.

Question 9

​Discuss the several ways in which functionalism expanded the field and/or practice of psychology.

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

The first person who applied evolution to machines was ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Butler
B)  Hollerith
C)  ​James
D)  Spencer
E)  Babbage

Question 11

Defend the proposition that functionalism was a transitory bridge from the study of the subjective mind and consciousness to the objective study of overt behavior.

Accepted Answer

Functionalism can be seen as a transitor...

Question 12

James would probably advocate belief in the ability to will oneself back to good health.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Hall was one of the first American psychologists to become interested in ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​equal political opportunity for women
B)  sexual equality
C)  ​physiological psychology
D)  psychoanalysis
E)  behaviorism

Question 14

Describe James's early life and his days as a student.What are the symptoms of neurasthenia and what was the "epidemic of neurasthenia" in the United States? Why are these relevant to a discussion of James's life?

Accepted Answer

James's early life was marked by privile...

Question 15

James argued that habitual actions would ____ the plasticity of ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​increase;character
B)  decrease;character
C)  ​increase;neural matter
D)  decrease;neural matter
E)  increase;habits

Question 16

Hall's Pedagogical Seminary reflected his early interest in ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​evolutionary theory
B)  eugenics
C)  ​child development
D)  heritability
E)  physiological psychology

Question 17

Which of the following best describes Carr's view of functionalism?​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Functionalism is concerned with mental activity.Mental processes control behavior that is conducive to survival.
B)  Functionalism studies how mental elements found in consciousness through introspection can be used to understand how humans adapt to environments.
C)  ​Functionalism should give up the study of the mind and concentrate on the study of behavior.
D)  Functionalism should try to perfect Titchener's introspective method in order to make it more reliable in the analysis of consciousness.
E)  None of the choices are correct.

Question 18

​Important books on adolescence and old age were written by ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​James
B)  Freud
C)  ​Binet
D)  Hall
E)  Thorndike

Question 19

Angell described functional psychology as the psychology of ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​stimulus and response
B)  mental operations
C)  ​mind-body relations
D)  immediate experiences of adaptation
E)  the development of adaptive habits

Question 20

The most appealing aspect of Spencer's philosophy for Americans was the notion of ____.​

Accepted Answer

A)  ​evolution of the human character
B)  evolution of social institutions
C)  ​natural selection
D)  survival of the fittest
E)  pragmatism

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