Test Bank For Psychology Concepts and Applications 4th Edition Jeffrey S Nevid
Test Bank For Psychology Concepts and Applications 4th Edition Jeffrey S Nevid
Test Bank For Psychology Concepts and Applications 4th Edition Jeffrey S Nevid
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CHAPTER 1
The Science of Psychology
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following is the most complete definition of psychology?
a) Psychology is the science of abnormal behavior and thoughts.
b) Psychology is the science of behavior.
c) Psychology is the science of mental processes.
d) Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes.
e) Psychology is the art of behavior and mental processes.
ANS: d TOP: MOD: Intro REF: Chapter Introduction MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1- Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Define/Describe
2. Psychology is best described as a science that studies:
a) the role of the mind in explaining behavior.
b) how the mind controls our behavior.
c) observable behavior only.
d) mental processes only.
e) behavior and mental processes.
ANS: e TOP: MOD: Intro REF: Chapter Introduction MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1- Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Define/Describe
3. The word ‘psychology’ comes from two Greek roots that mean:
a) knowledge and mind.
b) emotion and mind.
c) emotion and spirit.
d) mind and emotion
e) knowledge and spirit.
ANS: a TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1- Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Define/Describe
4. In the definition of psychology, the concept of behavior incorporates ALL EXCEPT which of the following?
a) Thinking
b) Dreaming
c) Quiet reading
d) Making yourself a sandwich
e) Secretion of insulin by the pancreas
ANS: e TOP: MOD: Intro REF: Chapter Introduction MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1- Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Evaluate/Explain
5. Why is psychology considered to be a scientific discipline?
a) Psychology discounts tradition and folklore.
b) Psychology focuses on testing theories.
c) Psychology relies on popular opinion.
d) Psychology emphasizes mental, as opposed to behavioral, processes.
e) Psychology values scholarly opinions over laboratory tests.
ANS: b TOP: MOD: Intro REF: Chapter Introduction MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1-Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Evaluate/Explain
6. Psychology made the transition from philosophy to scientific discipline with which event?
a) Fechner published Elements of Psychophysics.
b) Confucius proposed the idea that humans have an inborn capacity for good.
c) G. Stanley Hall founded the American Psychological Association.
d) Titchener brought methods of introspection to the United States.
e) Wundt founded the first psychological laboratory.
ANS: e TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: factual
KEY: Identify
7. Psychology is a scientific discipline in that it focuses on:
a) the pursuit of truth, not simply opinion.
b) testing opinions and assumptions in the light of evidence.
c) systematically building theories to explain phenomena.
d) behavioral, as opposed to mental, processes.
e) the accumulated wisdom of scholars.
ANS: b TOP: MOD: Intro REF: Chapter Introduction MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 1- Define psychology and explain why psychology is a science. KEY: Evaluate/Explain
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8. For her first psychology paper in graduate school, Tina decided to write about the subject of psychophysics.
Which of the following is most likely to be the name of her paper?
a) Men's physical reactions to different concentrations of perfume
b) People's reflections upon first coming in contact with "silly putty"
c) Why do only women wear makeup?
d) Why are people susceptible to optical illusions?
e) Which parts of the mind are activated when one looks at great art?
ANS: a TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: applied KEY: Apply
9. G. Stanley Hall is known for all of the following EXCEPT that:
a) he founded the American Psychological Association.
b) he is considered the founder of American psychology.
c) he was the first president of the American Psychological Association.
d) he established the first psychological laboratory in the United States.
e) he was the first American to work in Wundt's laboratory.
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: factual
KEY: Evaluate/Explain
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10. Which of the following early pioneers of psychology became the first scientist of the mind?
a) Fechner
b) von Helmholtz
c) James
d) Wundt
e) Titchener
ANS: d TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: factual
OBJ: 2- Identify the early schools of psychology and their important contributors. KEY: Identify
11. You have been assigned to write a report on Wilhelm Wundt's contributions to psychology. Which would be
the most useful term for an Internet search?
a) Introspection
b) Psychodynamic
c) Behaviorism
d) Association
e) Humanism
ANS: a TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: applied
OBJ: 3-Describe the major concepts associated with early schools of psychology.
KEY: Describe/Define, Apply
12. A functionalist is most likely to ask which of the following questions?
a) Can you describe the taste of a peach?
b) What is the purpose of superstitions?
c) What does the texture of chalk remind you of?
d) How does seeing a butterfly make you feel?
e) What thoughts does this musical passage evoke?
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: applied KEY:
Apply
13. Your psychology professor asks a student volunteer to concentrate on eating an apple and then describe the
individual elements of that experience. Your professor is demonstrating the technique of _______, which is
a technique used by investigators of ________.
a) stream of consciousness; functionalism
b) introspection; structuralism
c) introspection; Gestalt
d) introspection; humanism
e) stream of consciousness; structuralism
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: applied
OBJ: 3- Describe the major concepts associated with early schools of psychology.
KEY: Describe/Define, Apply
14. Psychological researcher Dr. Tatrino relies chiefly on introspection. Tatrino probably belongs to which
school of psychology?
a) Behaviorism
b) Structuralism
c) Humanism
d) Functionalism
e) Psychodynamic
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: conceptual
OBJ: 2-Identify the early schools of psychology and their important contributors. KEY: Identify
15. Identify the school of thought that focused on breaking conscious experience into its component parts.
a) Psychoanalysis
b) Structuralism
c) Gestalt
d) Introspection
e) Functionalism
ANS: b TOP: MOD: 1.1 REF: Foundations of Modern Psychology MSC: factual
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[The remainder of the book is filled with accounts relating to the
hospital of S. Paolo.
Since I discovered this ‘Libro di Ricordi’ last autumn, in the ‘archivio’
of S. Maria Nuova, its contents, so far as they relate to Alesso, have been
printed, no doubt, inadvertently, though not without some errors, in the third
number of the Miscellanea d’ Arte, Firenze, Marzo, 1903, p. 50, by Signor
Piero Bagnesi-Bellincini, the keeper of the ‘archivio,’ to whom I happened
to mention my find.]
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DOC. XII.
Firenze: R. Archivio di Stato; Arch. della Grascia, No. 5, Libro Primo Nero
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fol. 1 tergo.
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DOC. XIV.
DOC. XV.
Annotazioni in margine.
[1]* L’ Originale con altri libri mosi del medo Autore si conserva
appresso di noi suoi discendenti l’ anno 1750 nelle nostre antiche
Case di Borgo SS. Apostoli in Firenze nelle quali scrisse li detti
Libri.
[2] Alesso nacque anno 1425, ✠ [morto] l’ anno 1499. in età di anni
74.
Alesso Pittore ✠ [morto] 29 Agosto 1499 fù sepolto in S.
Lorenzo. Lib. de’ morti nell’ Ufizio dell’ Arte de med. e speziali.
Nel sepolt: antico m.s. in Cartapec: del anno 1463 nel Capitolo di S.
Lorenzo c. 4. t, si legge la seguente memoria.
Alesso di Baldovinetto, d’ Alesso Baldovinetti, et sua
Descendenti la 23 sepultura, come segue l’ ordine nel primo filare
della Croce con Arme d’ un Lione rampante d’ oro in Campo rosso
con fregio d’ oro intorno allo scudo segnata al Bastardello della
muraglia c. 548, Nro 90.
[12] Ambidue morti senza figli.
[13] Da un Libro di Ricordanze nello Spedale de Convalescenti in S.
Paolo.
¶ [It is significant that two of the three errors which we are now able to
detect in the foregoing passages from the ‘Memoriale’ of Francesco
Baldovinetti, should consist in the attribution to Alesso of the paintings by
Domenico Veneziano, once in the tabernacle at the Canto de’ Carnesecchi,
and the fresco of ‘Christ at the Column’ by Andrea da Castagno,” formerly
in the cloister of S. Croce: for Alesso was undoubtedly the pupil of
Domenico, as his early works prove; and the assistant of Andrea, as he
himself states in his ‘Ricordi.’ Of the paintings which Alesso is here stated
to have executed in the cloister of the monastery of S. Benedetto al
Mugnone, beyond the Porta a Pinti, near to where is now the Barriera della
Querce, at Florence, no other notices have come down to us. Here, again, it
is significant that Vasari records that at S. Benedetto were works by the
hand of Andrea da Castagno, both ‘in a cloister, and in the church’[131]; but
it must be remembered that the monastery had long been destroyed at the
time Vasari wrote; and that he himself had never seen the cloister in
question.]
¶ [The patronage of the church of S. Piero in Calicarza was already, at
the beginning of the fourteenth century, in the possession of the
Baldovinetti, who also owned the ‘torre,’ or fortified villa, called La Rocca
Perduta, which stood near the church. It is probable that the Baldovinetti
had possessed this property from very early times. It lies but a few miles
from Fiesole, on the hills above the further side of the valley of the
Mugnone, beyond the Medicean villa of Pratolino. According to Ugolino
Verino’s Latin poem, ‘De Illustratione Urbis Florentiae,’[132] the
Baldovinetti had their origin in Fiesole, during Roman times:
‘Baldovinetti Domus antiquissima, primus
Incola Romanus Fesulani montis habetur.’
Of the church of S. Piero in Calicarza, I find the following notices in
another manuscript which came from their house in Borgo Sant’ Apostoli.]