What do Hermann Ebbinghaus Francis Galton and Sigmund Freud share in common?

A. each of them worked independently
B. each of them were pioneers in the fields of psychology
C. each of them founded a formal psychology laboratory
D. each of them developed novel observational methods to study how the mind works

Which of following statements is true of Ebbinghaus?

A. He proposed an important theory about how memory works
B. He founded an influential school of psychology
C. His work stood the test of time as his findings were later replicated by others and many remain valid today.
D. However, he was unable to convert (or ‘operationalize’) unobserbales mental processes into observable behaviour

Which of the following is FALSE regarding Piaget?

A. Piaget argued that a child understands an object by acting on in either physically or mentally’ and thereby constructs knowledge.
B. Infants develop cognitive structures or schemes, which are organized particular way of interacting with the environment.
C. Cognitive structures of younger children, under the age of 7 reflect abstract mental operations.
D. The cognitive operations of alder children allow them to realized that conserved despite changes in appearance.

the cognitive revolution psychology was a response to the limitations of which school of thought?

A. Psychoanalysis
B. Behaviorism
C. Human information-processing
D. Gestalt psychology

the human information-processing approach and the connectionist approach disagree with each other about how information is processed. How does the connectionist approachdiffer from the human information-processing approach?

A. connectionists can study the brain as it naturally occurs in real life situations
B. connectionists assume cognitive systems function as a whole versus by single components
C. connectionists support the idea of a centeral processor of control unit
D. connectionists assume parallel versus serial processing of information

According to the information-processing framework, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Both the brain and the computer consist of millions components yet the behaviour of compute can be understood by studying the programs that run them.
B. A useful account of human behaviour is considered possible by using terms abstract enough to transcend to transcend the operation of the brain’s approximately 180 billion nerve cells.
C. From the human information-processing perspective, information delivered to the senses is translated into a cognitive code.
D. Two types of processing which is conscious, and controlled processing which in unconscious.

Psychologists employ a variety of tools and methods to study human behaviour which of the following methods to psychologists rely on to make systematic observations and draw conclusions about human behaviour.

A. Speculation and common sense
B. Generalisation and common sense
C. Hindsight and experimentation
D. Controlled measurement and experimentation

Which of the following school of thought would be most likely to reject the method introspection to study human experience?

A. Behaviorism
B. Psychoanalysis
C. Structuralism
D. Functionalism

Which of the following broad domains can be studied by psychologists?

A. Developmental processes
B. Biological bases of behaviour
C. Social basesof behaviour
D. Cognitive and affective processes

An advantage of the experimental method in psychology is: _____________?

A. The identification of a cause-and-effect relationship
B. Similar to the correlational method in that causality is determind.
C. That the surroundings are always similar to real life experiences.
D. That it is an informal way to investigate behavior.