1. ___________ has been called the Founder of British Empiricism.

A. John Locke
B. Thomas Hobbes
C. George Berkeley
D. Galileo Galilei
2. Psychoanalysis suggests that superego develops at the age of:
A. 2-3 years
B. 3-4 years
C. 5-6 years
D. 1-2 years
3. All of the following individuals contributed towards the development of Cognitive
Psychology EXCEPT for:
A. Sir Frederic Bartlett
B. Jean Piaget
C. Joseph Breuer
D. Noam Chomsky
4. Interpreting sensory information to yield meaningful information is known as:
A. Memory
B. Attention
C. Perception
D. Reasoning
5. A more recent approach - a belief that much of human behavior can be understood in
terms of how people think – is called:
A. Humanistic psychology
B. Cognitive psychology
C. Gestalt psychology
D. Psychoanalysis
6. ___________believed that psychotherapy could be used as a catalyst to help humans
strive toward their potential.
A. Carl Rogers
B. Bartlett
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Martin Seligman
7. ---------------------- focuses on more developed and healthier aspects of the human
psyche, such as spirituality, creativity, and tolerance.
A. Human growth
B. Phenomenological Approach
C. Self concept
D. Self-Determination
8. _________________ states that individuals perceive objects whole when they are not
complete.
A. Law of similarity
B. Law of Continuity
C. Law of Closure
D. Law of Proximity
9. If all other things are equal then as we look at a set of stimuli, we will automatically
perceive the similar ones as belonging together:
A. Law of Closure
B. Law of Similarity
C. Law of Continuity
D. None of the Above
10. _____________is the process by which something ‘appears’:
A. Closure
B. Emergence
C. Similarity
D. Figure-ground relationship
11. The German word ‘Gestalt’ means:
A. Configuration
B. Form
C. Whole
D. All of the above

12. Which of the following is an example of how a person would behave if their id went
unchecked?
A. A person admires roses in a neighbor's yard, so he cuts them and takes them
home.
 B. A person admires roses in a neighbor's yard, so he goes to the store and buys
roses to plant in his yard.
C. A person admires roses in a neighbor's yard, but decides roses are too high
maintenance.
D. A person admires roses in a neighbor's yard, so he tells the neighbor how
beautiful they are.
13. A famous empiricist named _____________, devised a technique to reduce irrational
fears in children by writing the procedure to work with a child having phobia of frogs.
A. John Locke
B. Auguste Comte
C. Immanuel Kant
D. John Stuart Mill
14. According to John Locke, primary qualities of objects possess the following
characteristics:
A. Primary qualities have the power to create in us ideas that correspond to actual
physical attributes of physical objects.
B. Primary qualities produce ideas that are subjective and psychological in nature.
C. There is no match between what is physically present and what is experienced
psychologically.
D. None of the above
15. Immanuel Kant was:
A. Nativist
B. Empiricist
C. Rationalist
D. Both a and c
16. One of the following is False regarding Rationalism:
A. Human mind works as an Active mind.
B. Human mind adds to sensory data rather than passively organizing and storing it
in memory.
C. Rationalism follows inductive reasoning.
D. Rationalism looks for reasons for behavior.
17. Hedonism means:
A. Behavior is caused by feelings of pleasure or pain.
B. Behavior is always reasoned.
 C. Behavior is learned.
D. Behavior is caused by innate force.
18. According to Immanuel Kant, Perception of Time is:
A. Concept of time is creation of the mind.
B. We experience a series of separate events on sensory level.
C. The mind superimposes a sense of time over sensory experiences.
D. All of the Above.
19. Rene Descartes was a:
A. Rationalist, Nativist and Phenomenologist.
B. Rationalist, Nativist and Empiricist.
C. Phenomenologist, Nativist and Empiricist.
D. Rationalist, Empiricist and Phenomenologist.
20. According to John Locke, there are two sources of ideas:
A. Sensation & perception
B. Sensation & reflection
C. Sensation & apperception
D. Perception & reflection
21. _________________, a Danish psychologist was first to clarify what constitutes ground
and figure.
A. Auguste Comte
B. Edgar Rubin
C. Jean Piaget
D. Vygotsky
22. Which of the following term does NOT fit in the theory proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche?
A. Will to power
B. Superman
C. Apollonian tendency
D. Categorical imperative

23. All of the following schools/movements emphasized the importance of sensory

25. This scientist used operant conditioning to train rats and pigeons to differentiate between
light and dark.

26. Classical conditioning methods were demonstrated by this scientist

27. Pairing a previously neutral stimulus with another stimulus to evoke a particular response
refers to...

28. This scientist conducted a controversial experiment involving a baby and a rat.

29. A second grade student loses 1 minute of recess every time she breaks a classroom rule.
Eventually, the student stops breaking the classroom rules. This is an example of

30. You are trying to train your dog not to jump on guests when they walk into your home.
You buy a zap collar at the store, which has a remote that will shock the dog when you
push a button. Every time your dog jumps on a person, you push the button, and the dog
gets an electric shock. Which scientist’s experiments are you most closely replicating

31. Your school has a goal of students being more prepared for class. For the first time all
year, all of your students come to class prepared. How would you use positive
reinforcement to try to increase the chance of this behavior happening again?

32. Objective Reality exists independently of anyone’s perception of it and is also known as
Physical reality.
33. Humanism is known to be the third force of psychology.
34. Schopenhaur believed that the most important basic human motive was the will to power.
35. Charles Darwin’s contribution in psychology involves natural selection and survival of
the fittest.
36. Francis Bacon was not a Radical empiricist.
37. Induction involves predicting a particular event from a general principle.
38. According to Gestaltists, Consciousness could not be reduced to elements without
distorting the true meaning of the conscious experience.
39. Perception of movement in a stationary object is called Phi Phenomenon.
40. Rene Descartes reached the conclusion that ultimate knowledge is always mathematical
knowledge.
41. “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am) was the conclusion given by John Locke.
42. In empiricism, sensory experience contributes ‘primary data’ of all knowledge.
43. According to John Locke, there is only one source of idea, which is Sensation.