Associationism is a school of psychology that examines ____.
a. how elements of the mind become linked to each other to result in learning
b. how people come to evaluate the accuracy of their own memory and cognitions
c. the process of forming mental images of real objects and the relationships between them
d. the positive or negative evaluations of objects and events and how they develop
Ques. 2Of the following, a pragmatist would most likely support the study of knowledge that ____.
a. exists for its own sake
b. can be used to help people become better educated
c. enables us to speculate further on the relationship between body and mind
d. has no specific use, but is highly interesting from a psychological perspective
Ques. 3Pragmatism concerns itself most directly with the ____.
a. methods of acquiring knowledge
b. degree to which knowledge is empirical
c. philosophical implications of knowledge
d. usefulness of knowledge
Ques. 4A leader in guiding functionalism toward pragmatism was ____, whose chief functional contribution to the field of psychology was his landmark book, Principles of Psychology.
a. John Dewey
b. William James
c. Edward Lee Thorndike
d. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Ques. 5Lorraine is conducting an experiment in which she eats an apple and attempts to analyze her experience. What technique is she using?
a. vivisection
b. introspection
c. behaviorism
d. naturalism
Ques. 6Which of the following is LEAST consistent with the purpose of functionalism?
a. the study of an organism independent of its environment
b. the study of mental processes
c. the study and uses of consciousness
d. the study of the relationship between the organism and its environment
Ques. 7The school of thought that focuses on answering the question of What do people do and why do they do it? is called ____.
a. Gestaltism
b. structuralism
c. psychoanalysis
d. functionalism
Ques. 8Which example is most analogous to the goal of structuralism?
a. Scientists study an entire assembled jigsaw puzzle in order to understand each of the pieces.
b. Scientists look at how the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle fit together in order to understand the assembling process.
c. Scientists look at each piece of a jigsaw puzzle in order to understand the whole puzzle as assembled.
d. Scientists study the different ways a jigsaw puzzle can be assembled to form different images.
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