[单项选择]Social psychology developed in the USA
A. because its roots are intellectually western in origin.
B. as a direct response to the great depression.
C. to meet the threat of Adolf Hitler and his policy of mass genocide.
D. because of its pragmatic traditions for dealing with social problems.

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The Historical Background of Social Psychology
　　While the roots of social psychology lie in the intellectual soil of the whole western tradition, its present flowering is recognized to be characteristically an American phenomenon. One reason for the striking upsurge of social psychology in the United States lies in the pragmatic tradition of this country. National emergencies and conditions of social disruption provide special incentive to invent new techniques, and to strike out boldly for solutions to practical social problems. Social psychology began to flourish soon after the First World War. This event, followed by the great depression of the 1930s, by the rise of Hitler, the genocide of Jews, race riots, the Second World War and the atomic threat, stimulated all branches of social science. A special challenge fell to social psychology. The question was asked: How is it possible to preserve the values of freedom and individual rights under condition of mounting soci
A. because its roots are intellectually western in origin.
B. as a direct response to the great depression.
C. to meet the threat of Adolf Hitler and his policy of mass genocide.
D. because of its pragmatic traditions for dealing with social problems.

[单项选择]According to the author, social psychology should help man to
A. preserve individual rights.
B. become healthier.
C. be aware of history.
D. improve material welfare.

[单项选择]While the roots of social psychology (lie in) the intellectual soil of the whole Western tradition, (it's) present (flowering) is recognized to be (characteristically) an American phenomenon.

[单项选择]According to behaviourist psychology, learning a language is a process of acquiring a set of appropriate______ chains, a mechanical process of habit formation.
A. stimulus-response
B. question-answer
C. requirement-offering
D. negative-positive

[单项选择]The authors statement that "psychology holds a unique position among the sciences" (lines 4--5) is supported by which of the following claims in the passage
A. The full meaning of a human relationship may not be obvious.
B. Commonsense understanding of human relations can be incisive.
C. Intuitive knowledge in the physical sciences is relatively advanced.
D. Subjective bias is difficult to control in psychological research.

[单项选择]Psychology Today (is) (interesting), informative, and (it is) easy (to read).
A. is
B. interesting
C. it is
D. to read

[单项选择]What do we know about color psychology, in this passage

[单项选择]The psychology therapist's job is to help people "re-author" stories that aren't doing them ______ .
A. just
B. justice
C. justiceships
D. justification

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The topic of thought is one area of psychology, and many observers have considered this aspect in connection with robots and computers: Some of the old worry about A1 (artificial intelligence) were closely linked to the question of whether computers could think. The first massive electronic computers, capable of rapid (if often unreliable) computation and little or no creative activity, were soon named "electronic brains". A reaction to this terminology quickly followed: To put them in their place, computers were called "high-speed idiots", an effort to protect human vanity. But not everyone realized the implications of the expression: "high-speed idiot". It has not been pointed out often enough that even the human idiot is one of the most intelligent fife forms on the earth. If the early computers were even that intelligent, it was already a remarkable state of affairs. One consequence from studying the possibility of computer thought was that we we
A. are terms that are not clear and will never be exactly defined.
B. might come to be better understood because of research into artificial intelligence and computers.
C. have precise biological meanings that refer only to human mental processes.
D. should not be used to describe computers.

[单项选择]Although television was developed for broadcasting, many important uses have been found that have nothing to do with it.
A. 电视不仅促进了节目的播送，而且也有很多其他重要的作用。
B. 尽管开发电视的初衷是为了播送节目，后来却发现电视还有很多与此毫无关系的重要用途。
C. 为了播送节目电视被开发出来，相应地，很多与此有关的重要用途也被发现。
D. 尽管开发电视的初衷是为了播送节目，后来却发现其实电视的重要用途都与此无关。

[单项选择]Consumer psychology in America is ______ that of consumers in Great Britain according to one investigation.
A. somewhat different from
B. exactly the same as
C. much better than
D. not as good as

[单项选择]The author thinks that psychology is to ______.
A. take the normal behavior for granted
B. make the natural seem strange
C. study abnormal competences
D. make easy things difficult

[单项选择]Which of the following was developed earliest
A. The fish hook.
B. The first hatchet.
C. The bow and arrow.
D. Pottery.