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University of San Francisco Psychology and Philosophy Questions
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- ______ is to nature as ______ is to nurture.
a. Plato, Aristotle
b. Aristotle, Plato
c. Pliny, Archimedes
d. Stavros, Pliny - ______ is the belief that the mind is fundamentally different from the body.
a. mindism
b. dualism
c. centralism
d. specialism - The school of psychology whose goal was to identify the basic elements of experience was called:
a. experientialism
b. dualism
c. functionalism
d. structuralism - Which of the following was most closely associated with the structuralist school of psychology?
a. Titchener
b. James
c. Descartes
d. Watson - Darwin’s theory of ______ argued that physiological characteristics evolve because they are useful to the
organism.
a. extreme usefulness
b. natural endowment
c. natural selection
d. natural wellbeing - ______ was to structuralism as ______ was to functionalism.
a. Wundt, Titchener
b. Wundt, James
c. James, Titchener
d. Milner, Thompson - Freud championed ______ psychology.
a. psychodynamic
b. cultural
c. conscious
d. biodynamic - Which school of psychology believes that it is impossible to objectively study the mind?
a. functionalism
b. behaviorism
c. humanism
d. socialism - Receiving an electric shock would be an example of a ______ whereas being frightened would be an example of a ______.
a. stimulus, response
b. punishment, reward
c. reaction, emotion
d. reinforcement, stimulus - Dr Pula wants to explore differences in child-rearing practices between British and Chinese parents. She is most likely a:
a. cognitive psychologist
b. physiological psychologist
c. cognitive-ergonomic psychologist
d. social-cultural psychologist