History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 10

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Question 1:

Which word best describes Gestalt psychology?
a) Holistic
b) Compartmentalized
c) American
d) Associationist

Question 2:

Which approach was the least obviously concerned with practical applications?
a) Functionalism
b) Gestalt
c) Behaviourism
d) Both A and C.

Question 3:

Who investigated the ‘phi phenomenon’?
a) Zeigarnik
b) Köhler
c) Koffka
d) Wertheimer

Question 4:

The ‘phi phenomenon’ illustrates a tendency towards ________.
a) isomorphism
b) insight
c) simplicity
d) complexity

Question 5:

According to Köhler, his chimpanzee’s behaviour was evidence of ________.
a) self-actualization
b) insight
c) field theory
d) anxiety

Question 6:

What did the Necker cube serve to illustrate?
a) isomorphism
b) insight
c) perceptual constancies
d) symbolic form

Question 7:

Following Koffka’s theory, ________ stimuli are effects that ________ stimuli have on the surface of a receptor organ.
a) distal; proximal
b) secondary; primary
c) primary; secondary
d) proximal; distal

Question 8:

Cassirer’s ideas about symbolic forms greatly influenced which social psychologist?
a) Lewin
b) Asch
c) Festinger
d) Milgram

Question 9:

Heider investigated what kind of psychology?
a) Freudian
b) common sense
c) Gestalt
d) behavioural

Question 10:

What kind of tasks were performed by participants in Festinger’s cognitive dissonance experiment?
a) Observational tasks
b) Manipulation of Necker cubes
c) Boring tasks
d) Manipulation of symbolic forms

Question 11:

It has been shown that if people do a demanding task voluntarily, they tend to perceive that task as ________ demanding than if they were to do it involuntarily.
a) more
b) less
c) similarly
d) just as

Question 12:

What did Asch’s experiments investigate?
a) Anxiety
b) Common-sense
c) Obedience
d) Conformity

Question 13:

Milgram bases his dissertation research on the work of ________.
a) Festinger
b) Asch
c) Goldstein
d) Lewin

Question 14:

At the time of Milgram’s famous experiment, obedience was a topic of keen interest in part because of ________.
a) World War I
b) World War II
c) the Korean War
d) the rise of drug culture

Question 15:

According to Goldstein’s research, the absence of a(n) ________ attitude undermines a person’s ability to come to terms with the world.
a) abstract
b) anxious
c) organismic
d) self-actualized

Question 16:

The ‘Gestalt’ concept itself was introduced by Goethe and had various meanings throughout the nineteenth century.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Wertheimer and Jung argued over who had invented the word association method.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The methodology advocated in Gestalt psychology was in opposition to the methodology advocated by phenomenology.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Wertheimer was one of the few Gestalt psychologists to never visit the United States.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Isomorphism is a variant of psychophysical parallelism.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Köhler’s book became known as the ‘Bible’ of Gestalt psychology.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Gestalt psychologists are ‘nativists’.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

The field we are interested in, according the Lewin’s theory, is a person’s life space.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

In Festinger’s cognitive dissonance experiment, the more participants were paid the more enjoyable they rated the tasks.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Those strongly affected by frame of reference are termed field-dependent.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 10