Mulitiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. From the perspective of ___________, whole entities have properties that are completely unlike, i.e., have     different properties, their component parts.

  1. elementalism
  2. associationism
  3. emergentism
  4. hedonism

Answer:

c. emergentism

2. In human personality, one theory proposes that people can be classified as characteristically outgoing and   interested, primarily, in the world of people and events.   To Eysenck, this is due to the level of activity in the    reticular activation system in the brain. This would be an   example of which of the following?

  1. biological determinism
  2. molecularism
  3. elementalism
  4. A & C

Answer:

a. biological determinism

3. Which of the following is the central characteristic of   elementary psychological functions as compared to higher   functions, according to Vygotsky?

  1. they are evoked by internal and external stimuli
  2. they are fully explained as evolved mechanisms
  3.  they are directly and fully biological in nature
  4.  they account fully for natural and cultural behavior

Answer:

c. they are directly and fully biological in nature

 4. Which of the following is the central characteristic of   higher psychological functions as opposed to elementary     psychological functions, according to Vygotsky?

  1. they are fully determined by environmental, including cultural, stimulation
  2. they are under the guidance of humanly created artificial stimuli     
  3. they incorporate cultural tools into elementary processes
  4. B & C

Answer:

d. B & C

5. According to one theory of ___________, having rain added     to soil can produce earthworms. That meant, then, that non- living materials could produce life.

  1. spontaneous generation
  2. vitalism
  3. biogenesis
  4. panspermia

Answer:

a. spontaneous generation