Historical Issues in Psychology Answers

A team of psychologists study personality development in the United States and generalize their research findings to describe personality development in China, Japan, and Korea. This is an example of __________ bias.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.A psychologist conducts research on life span development by interviewing numerous men and then uses the research findings to describe the different stages of development that both men and women experience. This is an example of __________.

Which of the following did the doll experiment not suggest?

Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll experiment was cited in the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.

The psychologist who was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in psychology in the US and is renowned for writing a comparative psychology book in which she described the cognitive processes in both humans and animals is __________.

__________ was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in psychology from a university in the US and is considered the father of African American psychology.

__________ was the first person of Asian American descent to be elected president of the American Psychological Association. A.J. Henry AlstonB.Richard SuinnC.Francis C. Sumner D.Kenneth Clark

Which of the following statements is not true about minorities in psychology today?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.During World War I, mental tests were administered to army recruits. The results of these tests were wrongly interpreted to suggest that Caucasians were superior to minorities. This is an example of __________ bias in early psychology.

__________ is best known for his influential studies on racism and its effects on child development, and for becoming the first African American to be elected president of the American Psychological Association. A.Kenneth ClarkB.Francis C. SumnerC.J. Henry AlstonD.Richard Suinn

Ethnocentrism is the practice of viewing male behavior and cognitive processes as the norm for explaining all human behavior.

The psychologist best known for being the first female president of the American Psychological Association and for being denied a doctoral degree from Harvard because of her gender is __________.

All of the following were barriers to minority participation in early psychology except __________.

The majority of early psychologists were all of the following except __________.