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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University

Functionalism at the University of Chicago and Columbia University

Multiple Choice



1

Where was Functionalism founded?
A)University of Leipzig
B)University of Chicago
C)Columbia University
D)Harvard University
2

Dewey went to graduate school at ____________, and __________ was a fellow student there.
A)Leipzig; Hall
B)Johns Hopkins; Hall
C)Johns Hopkins; Cattell
D)Harvard; Cattell
3

What unifying principle did Dewey propose for psychology?
A)The reflex arc
B)Newton’s theory of inertia
C)Recapitulation
D)The Law of Effect
4

Which of the following was not one of Dewey’s four basic psychological needs of a child?
A)Conversation
B)Cultivation
C)Curiosity
D)Construction
5

What was “Hull-House”?
A)A school set up by Dewey
B)The nickname of Chicago’s political ringleaders
C)A Chicago community center
D)The psychology laboratory at Clark University
6

Dewey’s immediate successor at Chicago was ____________.
A)Woodworth
B)Carr
C)Angell
D)Thorndike
7

What problem prevented Angell from earning a Ph.D.?
A)His dissertation research was inadequate
B)He was unable to come up with a dissertation topic
C)He did not have sufficient command of the German language
D)He left graduate school to fight in WWI
8

Which school of psychology is most clearly influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution?
A)Functionalism
B)Structuralism
C)Behaviorism
D)Gestalt psychology
9

Which Chicago functionalist conducted research in both visual perception and animal consciousness?
A)Carr
B)Dewey
C)Angell
D)Woodworth
10

Who of the following is not considered a Chicago functionalist?
A)Carr
B)Dewey
C)Angell
D)Woodworth
11

Woodworth conducted experiments on _______ in order to investigate the legitimacy of _______.
A)imageless thought; functionalism
B)maze learning; behaviorism
C)perception; psychophysics
D)transfer of training; formal discipline
12

Who supervised the psychometric testing of nearly 1,100 people at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904?
A)Woodworth
B)Thorndike
C)Cattell
D)Galton
13

Woodworth stressed that any attempt to measure intelligence must include ______.
A)multiple measures over a lengthy time frame
B)a consideration of the person’s context
C)direct, rather than indirect, measures of mental fitness
D)All of the above
14

Psychometric analysis of Babe Ruth at Columbia found his skills to be
A)far better than average
B)surprisingly average
C)far worse than average
D)entirely physical, and not mental
15

Woodworth’s monumental ____________ took nearly twenty years to write, but then became a standard text for nearly twenty years, too.
A)History of Experimental Psychology
B)Experimental Psychology
C)Principles of Psychology
D)Principles of Physiological Psychology
16

Woodworth’s motivational psychology stressed ______, a term which he introduced.
A)Incentives
B)Reinforcements
C)Drives
D)Secondary rewards
17

What problem(s) do psychologists have in describing the phenomena they study, according to Woodworth?
A)The phenomena are primarily hypothetical constructs
B)The phenomena are impossible to quantify
C)Psychologists don’t have their own specific and exclusive technical vocabulary
D)All of the Above
18

Thorndike’s first independent research project, inspired by James, was on the topic of ____.
A)imageless thought
B)mind reading
C)habit
D)emotion
19

Thorndike’s general principle of learning, which was developed through his research on animals in puzzle boxes, is called (the)
A)principle of parsimony
B)transfer of training
C)law of mass action
D)law of effect
20

As his career developed, Thorndike spent more and more time in the field of ____.
A)comparative psychology
B)educational psychology
C)behaviorism
D)clinical psychology
21

In addition to his psychological research, Thorndike
A)compiled lists of frequently-used words
B)rated the qualities of American cities
C)developed user-friendly dictionaries
D)All of the Above