Psych 12bk: Introduction to African American Psychology

1. The psychologist who wrote, “Scientific Racism: The Cloak of Objectivity,” a rebuke of the scientific racism of J. Phillippe Rushton, was:

a. Henry Tomes

b. Faye Belgrave

c. Robert Williams

d. Joseph White

e. None of the above (specify): _____________

2. Which, among the following, does not belong with the rest?

a. Robert Zajonc

b. Arthur Jensen

c. J. Phillippe Rushton

d. Richard Herrnstein

e. Kenneth Clark

3. Henry Tomes decried the absence of which famous psychologist in the APA’s list of top psychologists of the 20^th Century?

a. Sigmund Freud

b. B.F. Skinner

c. Ivan Pavlov

d. None of the above (specify): ______________

4. Kemit (also spelled Kmt) is the ancient name of a place now known as:

a. Egypt

b. Jamaica

c. North America

d. Atlantis

e. The Gold Coast (West Africa)

f. Timbuktu

5. The African American psychologist, Robert Guthrie, published an expose of scientific racism. The title of the book was: Even the rat was _____.

a. Inferior

b. Black

c. Caged

d. White

e. None of the above

6. Charles Darwin’s On the origen of species (1859) was influential in the development of scientific racism because of its emphasis on individual differences and the doctrine of survival of the _____________(fill in the blank).

7. The first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology was:

a. Joseph Baldwin (aka Kobi Kambon)

b. Robert Guthrie

c. Asa Hilliard

d. Robert Williams

e. Francis Cecil Sumner

8. The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) was founded in:

a. 1928

b. 1954

c. 1965

d. 1968

e. 1972

9. The film by Kiri Davis recreated the classic study by Mamie and Kenneth Clark that focused on children’s preferences for:

a. Teachers

b. Books

c. Music

d. Dance moves

e. Dolls

10. Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, one of the most influential African American psychologists, died in:

a. 1920

b. 1954

c. 1965

d. 1980

e. 2007