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6. Functionalism takes inspiration from which other area of psychology?

  • Cognitive
  • Developmental
  • Evolutionary
  • Psychodynamic
  • Biological
  • Nativism
  • Behaviourism

7. Although Roberta just sits there throughout the lecture, she can repeat everything the professor said. This is an example of _______

  • Intelligence
  • Latent learning
  • Echoic memory
  • Photographic memory

8. A core belief of functionalism was;

  • That functional evidence was needed in order to theorise about the human mind
  • Consciousness should not be studied due to its subjective nature
  • Consciousness has an functional value as it is a common characteristic of the human
  • Animals should not be studied as they do not possess consciousness

9. The introspection method was promoted by _____ and involves _____

  • Titchener and involves the description of ones own conscious thoughts, emotions and sensory experiences
  • Wundt and involves an empirical methods that lead to the development of cognitive neuroscience
  • Titchener and inspiring later functionalist who then studied conscious experience just in humans
  • William James and involves the description of ones own conscious thoughts, emotions and sensory experiences
  • Wundt and involves how we perceive different stimuli in our behaviours

10. We group bananas and apples together as they are both fruits. This is the law of;

  • The Law of Similarity
  • The Law of Contrast
  • The Law of Contiguity
  • The Law of Fruits

11. Structuralism theorises that;

  • Different stimuli appeal to different structures within the brain system
  • Different parts of the brain contribute to different behaviours
  • The mind consists of various elements and can be studied through introspection
  • Conscious experience is difficult to study ourselves and subjective experience should be disregarded

12. David Hume;

  • Believed we only rely on causal relations to occur
  • Had beliefs founded in extreme scepticism
  • All of the above
  • Believed we have no reason to believe things will stay the same
  • Believed knowledge degenerated into probability

13. The law of frequency is in play when;

  • When we automatically say boys when prompted to think of the first word we think of when we hear girls
  • We associate two best friends together as they are practically inseparable every single day
  • We associate a person with the scent because you smell it after they walk by
  • When we mix up two people's name as they both have blonde hair
  • All of the above

14. John Locke;

  • Believed in the concept of 'tabula rasa'
  • A British empiricist
  • All of the above
  • Believed the new-born mind was a blank slate
  • Maintained that all knowledge is a function of experience

15. Descartes proposed the...

  • Structuralist theory
  • Functionalism theory
  • All of the above
  • Mind-body dualism and relfex theory
  • The reflex theory
  • Evolution theory
  • Introspection paradigm

16. The mind-body dualism theory states

  • The mind is a blank slate and the body interacts with the environment to learn
  • Some human behaviours are reflexes and some are governed by free will
  • Humans are entirely governed by their free will
  • The mind and the body of all animals were separate and have free will

17. The laws of association were created by which philosopher?

  • Humes
  • Aristotle
  • Skinner
  • Descartes

18. The law of parsimony states;

  • Theories need both complex and simple explanations behind them
  • Primitive processes and simpler explanations are not by themselves enough to explain psychology
  • Simpler explanations are better than a more complex explanation based on abstract ideas
  • Mentalistic processes provide an adequate explanation for behaviour
  • Complex explanations are better than simple, surface explanations

19. Morgan's canon (principle) states that;

  • Non-human findings can not be generalised to human behaviour
  • Animal's behaviour is purely based on primitive processes whereas humans are more governed by mentalistic processes
  • Animal's behaviour is purely based on instinctive behaviour and not any mentalist processing
  • Animals should be used instead of humans for ethical reasons