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Psychology Chapter 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/17/2011

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For which of the following is Wilhelm Wundt primarily known?
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The establishment of the first formal laboratory for research in psychology
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Stanley Hall Is noteworthy in the history psychology because he:
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a). established the first american reseach lab in pyschology, b). Launched America's first pyschological journal C). Was the driving force behind the establishment of the American Psycholical Association (all of the above)
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Which of the following approaches might William James criticise for examining a movie frame by frame instead of seeing the motion in the motion picture?
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Structuralism
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Which of the following approaches might suggest that forgetting to pick his mother up a the airport was Henry's unconsious way of saying that he did not welcome her visit?
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psychoanalytic
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Fred, a tennis coach, insists that he can make any reasonably healthy individual into an internationally competitive tennis player. Freds is echoing the thoughts of?
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John B. Watson
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Which of the following is a statement with which Skinners's followers would agree?
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Free will is an illusion
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Which of the following approcaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?
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humanism
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Which of the following historical events created a demand for clinicians that was far greater than the supply?
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World War II
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The tendancy to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is known as?
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Ethnocentrism
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The Study of the endocrine system and genetic mechanisms would most likely be undertaken by a?
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Physiological psychologist
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The fact that we do not all agree about the nature and development of personality demonstrates:
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That there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon
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A multifactorial causaton approach to behvior suggest that:
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most behavior is governed by a complex network of intrrelated factors
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Psychology's answer to the question of whether we are born or made tends to be:
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We are both Born and Made
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In regard to changing answers on a multiple-choice tests, reserach indicates that ________ changes tend to be more common than other types of changes.
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Wrong to right
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Critical thinking skills:
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Need to be deliberately taught, because they often do not develop by themselves with standard content instruction.
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