AP Psychology Quiz 1B - Historic Foundations of Psychology (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with the Historic Foundations of Psychology based questions.

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	uses strictly biological forms of treatment
	utilizes multiple perspectives of psychology
	is an advocate of anti-psychiatry
	considers him or herself a psychoanalyst
	believes that all behavior is caused by past events and conditioning

	Environmental causes of depression
	The concordance rate for a mental disorder between monozygotic twins
	A person's unconscious motivations and hidden desires
	The interaction of a young child with his fellow classmates
	The effects of operant conditioning on a rats' behavior

	"We are genetically predisposed to certain disorders and there is little our environment can do to prevent this"
	"Mental disorders are a result of environmental and biological influences"
	"Antipsychotics are the root of all mental disorders, tormenting the soul and twisting the mind"
	"All mental disorders are diagnosable sicknesses curable through the proper treatment"
	"Mental disorders are an outward manifestation of our inner struggles"

	They placed an overemphasis on a person's free will, ignoring that, at times, a person or animal can produce automatic responses
	An underemphasis was placed on observable behavior and they were too concerned with the largely unobservable underlying mental framework
	Too much emphasis was placed on the biological constraints of learning; predispositions did not play as large a role as proposed by both psychologists
	The experiments they conducted to quantify and label behavior were methodologically flawed
	They largely ignored the cognitive processes behind learning and held an overly deterministic view towards human behavior

	Cognitive processes, such as latent learning, play a major role in learning and acquisition of behavior
	Thoughts and emotions are basic behaviors that follow the same rules of more obvious behavior
	Punishment often teaches someone how to avoid the threatened behavior, instead of extinguishing the actual behavior
	Thorndike's law of effect holds true; that rewarded behavior is likely to recur
	Shaping is an effective tool to guide animals towards a particular desired behavior

	overt human behavior and personality
	adaptation of humans to their environment
	the uniqueness of human nature
	unconscious forces, drives, and motivations
	mental processes underlying behavior

11 Base your answer to question below on the following statements.

Statement A - Only overt behavior is measurable; mental processes cannot be accurately studied
Statement B - A person's capacity for growth, adaption and change is limitless
Statement C - Interpretation and processing of one's environment influences subsequent actions and thoughts
Statement D - Behavior must be interpreted in terms of social settings and norms
Statement E - Behavior is driven by unconscious motivation and desires

Which one of the following psychologists would make statement A?

12 Base your answer to question below on the following statements.

Statement A - Only overt behavior is measurable; mental processes cannot be accurately studied
Statement B - A person's capacity for growth, adaption and change is limitless
Statement C - Interpretation and processing of one's environment influences subsequent actions and thoughts
Statement D - Behavior must be interpreted in terms of social settings and norms
Statement E - Behavior is driven by unconscious motivation and desires

Which one of the following psychologists would make statement C?

13 Base your answer to question below on the following statements.

Statement A - Only overt behavior is measurable; mental processes cannot be accurately studied
Statement B - A person's capacity for growth, adaption and change is limitless
Statement C - Interpretation and processing of one's environment influences subsequent actions and thoughts
Statement D - Behavior must be interpreted in terms of social settings and norms
Statement E - Behavior is driven by unconscious motivation and desires

Which one of the following psychologists would make statement B?