History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 14

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Question 1:

Which of the following groups called themselves the ‘Third Force’?
a) Humanistic psychologists
b) Cognitive psychologists
c) Behaviourists
d) Psychoanalysts

Question 2:

Which word is defined by the OED as ‘a doctrine that concentrates on the existence of the individual, who, being free and responsible, is held to be what he makes himself’?
a) Synergy
b) Actualization
c) Nihilism
d) Existentialism

Question 3:

Who was preoccupied with the nature of human choice?
a) Sartre
b) Nietzsche
c) Kierkegaard
d) Binswanger

Question 4:

Existentialism provided an alternative to what?
a) Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
b) Existential psychotherapy
c) Behaviourism
d) Humanism

Question 5:

Regarding the emergence of humanism, the ________ believed that the ________ has been too pessimistic.
a) West-coast Americans; east-coast Americans
b) Psychoanalysts; humanists
c) Americans; Europeans
d) Europeans; Americans

Question 6:

Who does your textbook describe as one of the ‘clearest’ spokespersons for humanistic psychology?
a) Rollo May
b) Abraham Maslow
c) Karl Bühler
d) Charlotte Bühler

Question 7:

________’s psychology could be described as a blend of neo-Freudianism and Gestalt/organismic psychology.
a) May's
b) Maslow's
c) Kelly's
d) Bühler’s

Question 8:

What is the correct order of the first three needs from Maslow’s hierarchy?
a) Safety, physiological, love
b) Love, physiological, safety
c) Physiological, safety, love
d) Safety, love, physiological

Question 9:

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the inter-need relationship in Maslow’s hierarchy?
a) At least two needs are there all the time.
b) All needs are there all the time and we are concerned with each of them at any given moment.
c) Only one need is present at a time.
d) All needs are there all the time, but you are most concerned with only one type of need at any one time.

Question 10:

Who, among the following, did Maslow observe in order to study self-actualized people?
a) Benedict
b) Wertheimer
c) Rogers
d) Both A and B.

Question 11:

According to your textbook, more than anyone else, ________’s name became synonymous with the practice of clinical psychology.
a) Maslow
b) Rogers
c) Witmer
d) Hollingworth

Question 12:

Which null hypothesis did Rogers attempt to test in his early research?
a) That clients do not change as a result of non-directive therapy
b) That clients change as a result of non-directive therapy
c) That clients are cured by non-directive therapy
d) Rogers did not test a null hypothesis.

Question 13:

Who was a student of Carl Rogers?
a) Bühler
b) Gendlin
c) Hollingworth
d) Maslow

Question 14:

Who wrote The Psychology of Personal Constructs in 1965?
a) Maslow
b) Rogers
c) Kelly
d) Hollingworth

Question 15:

Which of the following methods allowed psychologists to respond to their clients in ‘normal’ language, as opposed to the language of psychological expertise?
a) Constructs
b) Repertory grid
c) Encounter groups
d) Personal constructs

Question 16:

Humanistic psychology was an essential part of the cultural trends that characterized the 1960s.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Kierkegaard promoted the belief that we do not make our own choices.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Existentialism provided an alternative to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Psychologists in the United States agreed with the anti-scientific attitude expressed by many European existentialists.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

According to Bühler, humanistic psychology studies the separate parts that make up an individual.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

May argued that the support of love and will for oneanother should come through care.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Benedict was strongly influenced by Maslow’s thinking.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Love needs are at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Rogers retired from humanistic psychology at a relatively young age.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

An essential component of Kelly’s psychology is that people differ from one another in their construction of events.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 14