History, Philosophy, Physiology Structuralism and Functionalism Applied Psychology and Behaviorism Gestalt and Psychoanalysis Beginnings Contemporary Psychology
100
A. What is naturalistic theory.

B. What is mechanism.
A. The theory that views progress and change in scientific history as attributable to the Zeitgeist.

B. The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry.
100
A. Who is William James.

B. What is introspection.
A. This individual proposed the idea that consciousness is a continuous flowing process and that any attempt to reduce it to elements will distort it.

B. The examination of one's own mind to inspect and report on personal thoughts or feelings.
100
A. What is mental age.

B. What is the Stanford-Binet.
A. The age at which children of average age can perform specific tasks.

B. The ratio between mental age and chronological age can be determined through this test.
100
A. Who is Skinner.

B. Who is Freud.
A. This individual developed a program for behavioral control of society.

B. This individual is known for the term "psychoanalysis".
100
A. What is self-actualization.

B. What is cognitive psychology.
A. The full development of one's abilities and the realization of one's potential.

B. The study of the mind.
200
A. What is determinism.

B. What is reductionism.
A. The doctrine that acts are determined by past events.

B. The doctrine that explains phenomena on one level (complex ideas) in terms of phenomena on another level (simple ideas).
200
A. What is the stimulus error.

B. What is voluntarism.
A. Confusing the mental process under study with the stimulus or object being observed.

B. The idea that the mind has the capacity to organize mental contents into higher-level thought processes.
200
A. Who is Clever Hans.

B.What is associative memory.
A. The smartest horse in the world reputed to be the most intelligent four-legged creature that had ever lived.

B. When animals had learned to react to certain stimuli in a desirable way.
200
A. What is free association.

B. What is dream analysis.
A. A psychotherapeutic technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind.

B. A psychotherapeutic technique involving the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts.
200
A. Who is Carl Jung

B. Who is Carl Rogers.
A. This individual is known for developing analytical psychology.

B. This individual is best known for the approach to psychotherapy known as person-centered therapy.
300
A. What is Zeitgeist.

B. Who is Descartes.
A. The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times.

B. He created the reflex action theory that states the idea that an external object an bring about an involuntary response.
300
A. What is reflex arc.

B. What is dynamic psychology.
A. The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses.

B. This type of psychology was concerned with the influence of causal factors and motivations on feelings and behavior.
300
A. Who is Lightner Witmer.

B. Who is John B. Watson.
A. This individual offered the first course in clinical psychology.

B. This individual proposed a regulatory rather than a permissive system of child rearing, in keeping with his strong environmentalist position.
300
A. What is transference.

B. What is the Oedipus Complex.
A. The process by which a patient responds to the therapist as if the therapist were a significant person in their life.

B. At age 4-5 the unconscious desire of a boy for his mother and the desire to replace or destroy his father.
300
A. What is evolutionary psychology.

B. What is the collective unconscious.
A. This type of psychology argues that people are biological creatures that have been wired or programmed by evolution to behave, think, feel, and learn, which fosters survival.

B. The deepest level of the psyche which contains inherited experiences of
400
A. What is personalistic theory.

B. Who is Broca.
A. The theory that views progress and change as a result of individual contributions.

B. He developed the clinical method, a method of examining brain structures to detect damaged areas assumed to be responsible for behavioral conditions that existed be
400
A. What is the anecdotal method.

B.What is pragmatism.
A. The use of observational reports about animal behavior.

B. The doctrine that the validity of ideas is measured by their practical consequences.
400
A. What is equipotentiality.

B. What are the methods of behaviorism.
A. One part of the cortex is essentially equal to another in terms of its contribution to learning.

B. Observation with and without the use of instruments, testing methods, the verbal report method, and the conditioned reflex method.
400
A. What is operationism.

B. What is operant conditioning.
A. The doctrine that a physical concept can be defined in precise terms related to the set of operations.

B. A learning situation that involved behavior emitted by an organism rather than elicit by a detectable stimulus.
400
A. What is personal unconscious.

B. What is the computer metaphor.
A. The reservoir of material that once was conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed.

B. As the clock is no longer as useful as an example, this is used as an example for the modern view of the mind.
500
A. Who is Hemholtz

B. What is psychophysics.
A. This individual's biggest contribution to psychology was investigating the speed of the neural impulse and his research on vision and hearing.

B. The scientific study of the relations between mental and physical processes.
500
A. What is variability hypothesis.

B. What is the Law of Parsimony.
A. The notion that men show a wider range and variation of physical and mental development than women.

B. The notion that animal behavior must not be attributed to a higher mental process when it can be explained in terms of a lower mental process.
500
A. What is tropism.

B. What is connectionism.
A. An animal's reaction to a stimulus is direct and automatic.

B. Thorndike's experimental approach to the study of association.
500
A. What are the three stages of behaviorism.

B. What is the law of acquisition.
A. Behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, Neo-neobehaviorism.

B. The strength of an operant behavior is inreased when it is followed by the presentation of a reinforcing stimulus.
500
A. Who is George Miller

B. Who is Tolman
A. This individual published, "The Magial Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information".

B. This individual contributed to the decline of the stimulus-response approach.






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