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History of Psychology - Exam 1 Quiz

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Question 1

Which ancient Greek is associated with the theory of the four humors?

Hippocrates
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

Question 2

Which method did Socrates use to help students uncover knowledge they already possessed?

The Socratic method
Experimental introspection
Paired comparison
Action research

Question 3

Plato identified the brain as the seat of reason.

True
False

Question 4

Which philosopher described the mind at birth as a blank tablet (tabula rasa)?

Aristotle
Plato
René Descartes
Immanuel Kant

Question 5

Which British empiricist argued that fears are acquired through experience rather than being innate?

John Locke
John Stuart Mill
Immanuel Kant
René Descartes

Question 6

According to Descartes, what structure connects the mind and body?

The pineal gland
The heart
The cerebellum
The corpus callosum

Question 7

Kant believed psychology could become an experimental science because mental states can be observed without changing them.

True
False

Question 8

Who is credited with founding scientific psychology and establishing the first psychology laboratory?

Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Edward Titchener
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Question 9

Which school of psychology is associated with Edward Titchener?

Structuralism
Gestalt psychology
Behaviorism
Functionalism

Question 10

Hermann Ebbinghaus used ______ to study memory experimentally.

Fill in the blank

Question 11

Which Gestalt psychologist demonstrated the phi phenomenon, an illusion of motion?

Max Wertheimer
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Lewin
Carl Stumpf

Question 12

Which formula expresses Kurt Lewin’s idea that behavior is a function of the person and the environment?

B = f(P, E)
E = mc^2
S → R
World + Soul = Experience

Question 13

Which early psychologist argued that ideas are weak copies of sensations and that the passive mind associates ideas?

James Mill
Franz Joseph Gall
Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz
Kurt Koffka

Question 14

The doctrine of specific nerve energies is associated with which thinker?

Johannes Peter Müller
Johann Caspar Spurzheim
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Max Weber

Question 15

Franz Joseph Gall is associated with phrenology, the idea that personality can be inferred from outward appearances.

True
False

Question 16

Who was Franz Joseph Gall's assistant and helped popularize phrenology?

Johann Caspar Spurzheim
Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz
William McDougall
Bluma Zeigarnik

Question 17

Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz studied all of the following EXCEPT:

The physiology of optics
Color vision
Nerve impulses
The Zeigarnik effect

Question 18

Emil du Bois-Reymond was the first to measure which nerve?

The sciatic nerve
The optic nerve
The auditory nerve
The facial nerve

Question 19

Emil du Bois-Reymond conducted an electrode experiment on himself and burned himself.

True
False

Question 20

At which university did William McDougall establish a psychology laboratory?

The University of London
Harvard University
The University of Berlin
The University of Vienna

Question 21

Which approach did William McDougall emphasize?

Purposive behaviorism
Phrenology
Gestalt psychology
The doctrine of specific nerve energies

Question 22

Max Weber's experiments on touch included measuring the two-point discrimination threshold on which body areas?

Fingertips, lips, and back
Palms, knees, and forehead
Cheeks, elbows, and feet
Shoulders, neck, and thighs

Question 23

What does the Zeigarnik effect describe?

Interrupted tasks are more likely to be recalled.
Completed tasks are always forgotten.
People remember only visual information.
Paid bills are remembered better than unpaid bills.

Question 24

Which psychologist co-founded Gestalt psychology and extended Gestalt theory to developmental psychology?

Kurt Koffka
Bluma Zeigarnik
William McDougall
Johannes Peter Müller

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