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6. Which famous psychologist was Charles Darwin’s half-cousin?

  • Sir Francis Galton
  • Henry Goddard
  • Karl Peason
  • Alfred Russel Wallace

7. What is another name for Vicarious Learning?

  • Observational learning
  • Physical learning
  • Aural learning
  • Linguistic learning

8. Who was the first person to study twins in Psychology?

  • Robert Plomin
  • Sir Francis Galton
  • Alfred Binet
  • Albert Bandura

9. Harry Harlow was famous for his research on love. What else did he study in monkeys?

  • Levels of emphathy
  • Social/maternal deprivation
  • Levels of anger
  • Absence of fathers

10. Bandura came up with four motivational types that influence observational learning. Which of these is the odd one out?

  • Self-efficacy
  • Self-reinforcement
  • Extrinsic
  • Vicarious

11. B. F. Skinner wrote a book that applied his behavioural principles to an ideal or utopian society. What was it called?

  • Verbal Behaviour
  • Walden One
  • Walden Two
  • Science and Human Behaviour

12. Which of the following is NOT a reason why we study Historical Perspectives in Psychology?

  • We realise how good the existing theories are and cease to develop new research
  • We try not to repeat the mistakes made in the past
  • We can understand history behind the emergence of key ideas, principles, laws & theories in Psychology
  • We are better able to state new ideas/theories that build on from older theories

13. Who carried out experiments on cats using his ‘puzzle box’?

  • Edward Titchener
  • Edward Thorndike
  • Charles Darwin
  • John Watson

14. In Behaviourism, to take a headache tablet to cope with a pain in your head is an example of what?

  • Negative punishment
  • Negative reinforcement
  • Positive reinforcement
  • Positive punishment

15. Who was referred to as a “weird little misfit” at school in a biography of their life?

  • Alfred Binet
  • Harry Harlow
  • Sir Francis Galton
  • Edward Titchener

16. On average, IQ test scores worldwide have been increasing over time: younger generations perform better than older generations. What is the name of this effect?

  • Degeneration Effect
  • Flynn Effect
  • Generation Effect
  • Floran Effect

17. Who came up with four motivational types that influence observational learning?

  • John Watson
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • Albert Bandura
  • Alfred Binet

18. According to Bandura, what is the definition of attentional processes?

  • Person needs to compliment the behaviour
  • Person needs to notice the behaviour
  • Person needs to carry out behaviour
  • Person needs to remember the behaviour

19. In Alfred Binet’s time, children with weak levels of intelligence were categorised as what three things?

  • Idiot, imbecile, deranged
  • Simpleton, idiot, debile
  • Idiot, imbecile, debile
  • Feeble-minded, imbecile, idiot

20. Who founded the first Psychology lab?

  • Terman
  • Wundt
  • Titchener
  • Watson