Chapter 2

Question 1

The history of psychology is the history of thought about human consciousness and behavior. True or false.

Answer 1

True.

Question 2

The Greek philosophers discovered the doctrine of the four basic strengths. True or false.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Temperaments, basically stated, are the representative qualities of blank that blank affects man’s behavior.

Answer 3

Uniqueness, subconsciously

Question 4

Biblical indications of temperament are shown in phrases such as: “blank blank”, “blank blank blank”, “blank blank”, or “blank blank blank”.

Answer 4

The flesh, our soulish nature, corruptible flesh, our old nature.

Question 5

About the end of the fifth century BC, the blank came up with the philosophy that the soul was something resident in the body but capable of existing apart from the body.

Answer 5

Pythagoreans

Question 6

According to blank , his conception was that the souls activity was constitutive of its basic functions, and the idea that simpler activities develop into more complex ideas, sometimes giving rise to conflict.

Answer 6

Plato

Question 7

Blank claimed that all knowledge came to man quote “through the door of the senses”

Answer 7

Heraclitus

Question 8

Blank supposed that the entire psychic life is made up only of sensations.

Answer 8

Protagoras

Question 9

The blank used the concept that the mind is: “Like a blank wax tablet upon which experience writes”.

Answer 9

Stoics

Question 10

It was blank who held that the body has a “Pneuma” or a “spirit”, and also determined that there were five distinct senses.

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

By the third century A.D., blank, promoted a return to blank and established psychology as a pure science of experience based upon introspection without regard to underlying physiological processes.

Answer 11

Plotinus, Platoism

Question 12

Blank, continuing with tradition, established what came presently to be the foundation of the accepted psychology of the Christian church.

Answer 12

Augustine

Question 13

Blank expounded his thesis that men are controlled more about their passions then buy reason.

Answer 13

Machiavelli

Question 14

Blank blank promoted a naturalistic view of man’s conduct.

Answer 14

Francis Bacon

Question 15

Blank blank determined that human action is set by pleasure, pain, pride, and fear.

Answer 15

Thomas Hobbes

Question 16

Blank blank established a duel concept that the mind and body are separate; that the mind is unextended substance and the body is extended substance.

Answer 16

Renée Descartes

Question 17

Blank blank presented his theory that the mind is constituted of ideas, all of which are gained from experience, most of them by way of the external senses , some of them by reflection, which is the inner sense by which the mind becomes aware of its own operations.

Answer 17

John Locke

Question 18

Blank blank is known as the founder of the new – scientific psychology of the 19th century which he called physiological psychology and experimental psychology

Answer 18

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 19

Blank, along with an outstanding Viennese physician and thinker, blank blank, collaborated their thoughts on the subject of hysteria and its treatment.

Answer 19

Freud, Joseph Brewer

Question 20

Charles Darwin was a psychologist. True or false.

Answer 20

False.

Question 21

While associationism is more of a “blank blank blank” then a “blank blank blank”, the principal derives from philosophical questions as: “blank blank blank blank blank”, or “blank blank blank blank blank blank?”

Answer 21

Principle of psychology, school of psychology, “How do we know things?”, “Where do complex thoughts come from?”

Question 22

The association school came primarily from three scientists: blank blank, Nobel prize winner blank blank and blank blank, known as “America’s first educational psychologist”.

Answer 22

Herman Ebbinghouse, Ivan Pavlov, Edward Thorndyke

Question 23

Wilhelm Wundt was considered the forerunner of structuralism. He considered that the responsibility of psychology was threefold:

Answer 23

To analyze conscious processes into basic elements;
To discover how these elements became connected;
To determine the laws of connection.

Question 24

Theorist blank blank blank founded the school of behaviorism with the concept that psychology was the scientific study of observable behavior.

Answer 24

John B Watson

Question 25

The basic principle of blank psychology is that it deals with mental facts, such as perception, which are ignored when merely analytical procedures are used in psychology.

Answer 25

Gestalt

Question 26

Freud felt that dreams were, as he put it, “blank blank blank blank blank blank”.

Answer 26

The Royal Road to the unconscious.

Question 27

Carl Jung and Alfred Adler we’re both supportive of Freud’s theories. True or false.

Answer 27

False.

Question 28

“Blank blank blank” are psycho- educational in nature and attempt to treat very specific problems and issues of the participants.

Answer 28

Behavior therapy groups

Question 29

“Blank – blank or blank blank” emphasize overcoming the severe problems of participants lives, which generally are common to the group.

Answer 29

Self – help, support groups

Question 30

“Structured groups” are primarily psycho – educational in nature and have goals and directions that are very structured for each participant in the group. True or false.

Answer 30

True.

Question 31

Psychology is defined as the “blank blank blank blank blank blank blank.”

Answer 31

Scientific study of the behavior of organisms.

Question 32

Psychoanalytic therapy is used quite often in a group setting. True or false.

Answer 32

False.

Question 33

Blank therapy tends to focus on the present state of mind of the patient, their awareness of present feelings instead of childhood origins of feelings, of taking responsibility for one’s feelings and actions, and promoting growth and fulfillment instead of curing illness.

Answer 33

Humanistic

Question 34

Humanistic therapy’s are commonly used in group settings. True or false

Answer 34

True

Question 35

In blank blank, the assumption is that the symptoms are the problem.

Answer 35

Behavioral therapy

Question 36

“Blank blank” is the application of an opposite or counter stimulus to change the behavior of the patient.

Answer 36

Counter conditioning

Question 37

“Blank blank” is the application of a concept that a person cannot be anxious and relaxed at the same time.

Answer 37

Systematic desensitization

Question 38

The application of the replacing of a positive response to a harmful stimulus with a negative or aversive response is called blank blank.

Answer 38

Aversive conditioning

Question 39

In blank blank, the therapist acts as a supporter and a motivator in assisting the participant to make necessary changes in their life; serves as a resource in identifying the participants problem, presents change strategies, and serves as a model of more acceptable behavior.

Answer 39

Behavior modification

Question 40

“Cognitive behavior therapy” is not widely used in group therapy. True or false.

Answer 40

False

Question 41

Albert Ellis sees rationality in four different spheres. Name them:

Answer 41

Survival
Maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain
Being a part of a social group
Attaining intimacy with some of the group

Question 42

“Blank blank blank” is directing the participant to look at their irrational ideas and behavior and substitute a rational alternative.

Answer 42

Rational emotive therapy