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