history of psych quizzes 3

Plans and the Structure of Behavior had what significance in the career of Miller?

It signified his transition from behavioral psychology to cognitive psychology

Psychology in South Africa underwent substantial growth early on despite

The racist applications of psychological research being done

Cybernetics can be defined as

The study of self-regulating physical and social systems

In the early years of community psychology, an innovative training program existed at

University of Maryland

Alan Turing illustrated his design for a computational system with the ability to perform any computable function through

a game

The requirement for psychologists to have training in multicultural issues came about

at the Dulles Conference

As one of its members put it, the Research Group in Psychology and the Social Sciences was best able to

deal with human factors in military hardware, such as ergonomic designs

Intersectionality refers to

the interdependent relations among categories such as gender, race, and class

Maccoby and Jacklin concluded in their study that the most influential factor or factors in the development of differences between the sexes are

A combination of biology and socialization

The term Third World was originally coined by French social scientists in the 1950s to refer to

A third way of living, between communism and capitalism

Unlike other areas of the world, which region did not really pursue the formal study of psychology (if it did at all) until decades after the Second World War?

Africa (except South Africa)

Conscientization _____.

All the above; Involves improving literacy among the poor, attempts to empower citizens and help them think for themselves, was a concept developed by Paolo Freire

The theory behind the phrase "cells that fire together, wire together" can be attributed to

Donald Hebb

It was not until the 1960s or later that most Latin American countries developed

Experimental psychology laboratories

Donald Broadbent is best known for his work with memory and his theory on

Filter models

In Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin's analysis of sex differences research, all of the following were determined to be empirically supported except

Girls are more willing to ask for help when it is needed

The first African American woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology was

Inez Beverly Prosser

Although the author of The Feminine Mystique was not a psychologist, her work was critical of psychology, specifically

Psychoanalysis

French Algerian psychiatrist Frantz Fanon argued

that psychological disciplines often played a role in creating the psychopathology of oppression

The first -Black psychological association was

the American Teachers Association