Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

The Paris model of experimentation was influenced by

A)the French school system.
B)French medical context.
C)the French social system.
D)a French flair for drama.

Answer 1

French medical context.

Question 2

In this text, a distinction has been made between "little p" psychology and "big P" Psychology.At its simplest level, what is the difference?

A)Little p psychology is our everyday sense of our own private lives, while big P Psychology embodies the formal scientific and professional approach to human experience.
B)The terms indicate that there is no relationship between the two.
C)Little p psychology refers to pseudoscience, while big P Psychology refers to "real" science.
D)None of the above

Answer 2

Little p psychology is our everyday sense of our own private lives, while big P Psychology embodies the formal scientific and professional approach to human experience.

Question 3

Reflexivity can be defined as

A)the fundamental conflation of the agent and the object of study in psychology.
B)knowledge produced by agents and the characteristics of these agents themselves influencing how objects respond in the course of their being studied.
C)the act of self-regard.
D)all of the above

Answer 3

all of the above

Question 4

In Laurel Furumoto's classic article "The New History of Psychology," historians of psychology were called upon to write histories that were more ____ and less ____.

A)progressive; critical
B)accurate; interpretive
C)critical; celebratory
D)biographical; contextual

Question 5

The authors of your textbook hope to convince you that

A)historical knowledge is irrelevant to students of psychology.
B)historical knowledge is irrelevant to science.
C)historical knowledge is foundational to understanding the natural world.
D)historical knowledge is foundational to being able to understand ourselves as humans.

Question 6

Postmodern critics challenged the notion of

A)a rational, individual, and autonomous self.
B)a progressive science.
C)a socially forged self.
D)both a and B

Question 7

Historian of psychology Kurt Danziger's discussion of the Leipzig, Paris, and Galtonian or statistical models of psychological experimentation reminds us that

A)there has never been such a thing as the psychological experiment, or only one way of doing research.
B)the way we do research now in Psychology is superior to the ways in which psychologists used to conduct research.
C)the psychological experiment has always been set up as a relationship between two individuals.
D)the psychological experiment has always involved a passive subject and an expert experimenter.

Question 8

An origin myth is defined as

A)a made-up story about the origins of psychology.
B)a historical account that selects great thinkers and classic experiments to buttress the legitimacy of present views.
C)a historical account that selects great thinkers and classic experiments to expose the socially constructed nature of the discipline.
D)a heroic tale involving the overthrow of philosophical psychology by the new science of the mind.

Question 9

American psychology, your textbook authors argue, is a form of ____ psychology.

A)social
B)exogenous psychology
C)indigenous psychology
D)cultural psychology

Question 10

The process whereby a local culture or region develops its own form of psychology, either by developing it from within that culture or by importing aspects of psychologies developed elsewhere and combining them with local concepts, is called

A)social constructionism.
B)indigenization.
C)colonialism.
D)professionalization.