Question 1

The functionalist school emphasized the adaptive role of experience and behavior.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

The "Fechner Club" founded by Titchener in 1904 changed its name to the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1928.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

Structuralism was a direct outgrowth of functionalism just as behaviorism was a direct outgrowth of functionalism.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

What is "mental age," and how is the concept used in the measurement of intelligence?

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Question 5

Which of the following are tests of personality?

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A)   the MMPI and the TAT
B)   the WISC and the WAIS
C)   the Alpha and the Beta
D)   the Binet-Simon and the Stanford-Binet

Question 6

What is Titchenerian systematic introspection?

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Question 7

What was Mead's functional definition of meaning?

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Question 8

How did Cattell, Calkins, and other early modern psychologists propose to measure individual differences in intelligence-and did this approach work?

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Question 9

Woodworth's "dynamic psychology"

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A)   argued that mechanisms may become drives
B)   was an outgrowth of psychoanalytic theory
C)   led to the reinforcement theories of Hull, Spence, and Skinner
D)   generated a widely used test of personality

Question 10

According to Titchener, the stimulus error is

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A)   including information about the meaning of the stimulus in the description of the mental content generated by that stimulus
B)   confusing one stimulus with another similar one
C)   identifying the wrong stimulus as responsible for a response
D)   all of these

Question 11

At Columbia, the functionalist orientation was explicit and dominant, while it was implicit and taken for granted in Chicago.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Titchener advocated

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A)   all of these
B)   systematic introspection to discover mental elements
C)   the context theory of meaning
D)   avoidance of the stimulus error

Question 13

Contrast Terman's and Wechsler's concept of the IQ.

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Question 14

What did Titchener believe is the task of psychology?

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Question 15

Summarize Titchener's context theory of meaning.

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Question 16

For Titchener, "what" is the analysis of mental elements, "why" is how the elements are synthesized, and "how" is the connection of the elements.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Thorndike's connectionism argued that

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A)   all of these
B)   satisfiers strengthen and annoyers weaken preceding S-R connections
C)   behavior in a new puzzle situation rarely if ever displays insight
D)   the law of effect plays a crucial role in learning

Question 18

Cattell's and Calkins's use of reaction time and of psychophysical measurements proved to be a useful set of techniques for the measurement of intelligence.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What is Thorndike's "law of effect?"

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Question 20

How did Titchener reinterpret Wundt's psychology?

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Exam 10: Structuralism and Functionalism

The functionalist school emphasized the adaptive role of experience and behavior.

The "Fechner Club" founded by Titchener in 1904 changed its name to the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1928.

Structuralism was a direct outgrowth of functionalism just as behaviorism was a direct outgrowth of functionalism.

What is "mental age," and how is the concept used in the measurement of intelligence?

Which of the following are tests of personality?

What is Titchenerian systematic introspection?

What was Mead's functional definition of meaning?

How did Cattell, Calkins, and other early modern psychologists propose to measure individual differences in intelligence-and did this approach work?

Woodworth's "dynamic psychology"

According to Titchener, the stimulus error is

At Columbia, the functionalist orientation was explicit and dominant, while it was implicit and taken for granted in Chicago.

Titchener advocated

Contrast Terman's and Wechsler's concept of the IQ.

What did Titchener believe is the task of psychology?

Summarize Titchener's context theory of meaning.

For Titchener, "what" is the analysis of mental elements, "why" is how the elements are synthesized, and "how" is the connection of the elements.

Thorndike's connectionism argued that

Cattell's and Calkins's use of reaction time and of psychophysical measurements proved to be a useful set of techniques for the measurement of intelligence.

What is Thorndike's "law of effect?"

How did Titchener reinterpret Wundt's psychology?