psyc 319 ch 6 – Flashcards
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darwin theory of evolution brigade the mental functioning between animals and humans T/F
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True
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functionalist ask question like " what is the function of consciousness" T/F
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true
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functionalism was replaced by structuralism T/F
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false
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functionalism was the end of searching for the "elements of consciousness" T/F
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true
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the mechanism for the theory of evolution is artificial selection T/F
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False
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which of the following statements best summarizes the protest of functional psychology against wundt and titchner
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Functional psychology claimed that Wundt's and Titchener's approaches were too restrictive because they did not study the practical value of mental processes.
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--- a predecessor of Darwin, speculated that all mammals had evolved from a single silent and given movement by god
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Erasmus Darwin
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the most important consequence of functionalism was ....
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the development of applied psychology
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a consequence of darwin's work for psychology was....
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focus on individual differences
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in the original source material from his autobiography, darwin described himself as.....
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all of the choices are correct
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today scientist are sometimes portrayed as offering science as a new religion or as being enemies of religion. This stance could be traced to....
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huxley
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in his book....., darwin emphasized the similarity between human and mental processes
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the descent of man
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the most fundamental point of darwin's theses was the...
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fact of variation among members of the species
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in his journal Mind, Darwin describes....
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developmental stages of his son in relation to human evolution
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how many years did darwin wait to present his theory publicy
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22
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Wundt and titchner both considered individuals difference research to be inappropriate for psychology T/F
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true
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as a variable for men and women, height follows a normal curve distribution T/F
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true
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a suggestion of gallon's mental inheritance was that brilliant men produce brilliant sons T/F
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true
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gallons anthropometric lab was free to the public T/F
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false
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"r" the symbol for correlation coefficient, is based on the "r" at the beginning of the word "recess" T/F
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false
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which of the following did Galton NOT endorse in the material from hereditary genius?
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the idea of natural equality
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the aim of the research at the anthropometric lab was to assess...
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the collective mental resources of british people
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the term mental test was coined by ---- but ---- originated this concept
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Cattell;Galton
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Galton's measures of intellectual functioning assumed correlation between intelligence and----
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acuteness of the senses
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the early 20th century american government policy of sterilizing mentally retarded females is an exampled of...
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eugenics
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Galton's hereditary genius was mainly concerned with....
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a statistical analysis of the the concept of eminent men producing eminent offspring
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who was the first to show that biological and social data were normally distributed
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Quetelet
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Who wrote the 16th century book on individual differences and argued that children's education should be individualized to recognize such differences?
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Huarte
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the idea of measures clustering around the center or average of a distribution should be attributed to---
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Quetleet
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galton proposed that measurement of human traits could be defined and summarized by two numbers, which are...
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the mean and standard deviation
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C. Lloyd Morgan proposed the "law of parsley" T/F
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false
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romanes wrote the book on animal intelligence T/F
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True
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decrates and darwin were in complete agreement about the similarity between animals and humans T/F
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false
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animal psychology got a big boost from darwin theory of evolution T/F
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true
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Galtons association of ideas refers to the thoughts and memories elicited by things we notice in the environment T/F
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true
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according to darwin, human emotional expressions reflect.....
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the inheritance of animal responses that may not be adaptive for humans
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the first person to engage in large studies of experimental comparative psychology was....
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morgan
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galton studied paranoid disorders by---
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imaging that every person or thing he saw was spying on him
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the first systematic study of animal intelligence was by
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Romanes
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According to--- animals have no should and thus are automata
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Decrates
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the first experimental attempt to study word associations was by---
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Galton
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the intent of lloyd morgans cannon was to---
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make comparative psychology more scientific
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whenever we think "we know whats on someones mind we are using which technique?
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introspection by analogy
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galton found that substantial proportion of word associations were evidence of----
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the effects of childhood experiences on the adult
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which of the following are influenced by gallons work?
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all of the above
