Exam 10: The Psychology of Adaptation

According to pragmatism, beliefs are:

Singer disagreed with James's answer to the automatic sweetheart question. Singer argued that the concept of mind was an example of the fallacy of reification, what Ryle called a "category mistake". Which of the following is an example?

Describe Romanes' approach to comparative psychology. Include a discussion of the anecdotal method? What problem did this method have and how did Morgan attempt to minimize the problem?

Which of the following was the evolutionary function of consciousness according to James?

E. G. Boring once remarked that although American psychologists got their brass instruments and degrees from Wundt, they got their inspiration from:

In the USA, the "Old Psychology" referred to:

Why did the psychology of adaptation find fertile ground in the United States? How did the influence of Reid's common sense philosophy, Evangelical Christianity, radical environmentalism and valuing business contribute to the psychology of adaptation growth in the USA?

According to the Spencerian paradigm:

Functional psychology was "functional" in three senses. One of which was ______?

The rule that in inferring an animal's mental processes from behavior one should infer the simplest level of mind needed to explain the behavior is called:

I observe a cat return to a place where it caught a mouse yesterday, where it waits, preparing to pounce again. I infer that the cat must possess memory. According to Morgan, this is an example of a(n) _________ inference from behavior to mind.

Morgan's Canon is the rule that in attributing mental processes to animals we should:

How did Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology lead to neglect of the species question?

In Animal Intelligence (1883) George Romanes carried on work in comparative psychology by surveying the mental abilities of animals. Yet C. Lloyd Morgan objected to Romanes ________.

According to Herbert Spencer, the evolutionary function of consciousness is:

Which of the following was not an important influence on American thought?

Both Lamarck and Darwin proposed theories of evolution. The most important difference between them was that:

Which of the following is an example of positive eugenics?

A hiker walking in the woods ignores the sound of a twig snapping while a solider during combat pays attention to the twig snap. Both structuralism and early functionalism would argue it was the Will or Transcendental Ego that controlled perception. In contrast the reflex arc paper by __________ disagreed with this explanation.

What is social Darwinism? What are negative and positive eugenics?