FINAL EXAM History and Systems in Psychology Chapter 11-13

Perhaps the major contribution of Gestalt psychology to contemporary systems was the ____.

A major theme of Freud's system, borrowed from Darwin, was the ____.

Hull's form of behaviorism was ____ than ____.

From the Gestalt perspective, insight requires that one ____.

According to Herbart, if a new idea is incompatible with pre-existing ideas, the new idea will be ____.

For Tolman, the obvious and objective behavioral evidence of purpose was ____.

Watson's behaviorism ____.

The observation that an undone task is remembered until completed is an illustration of ____.

According to Freud, the "third shock" to the collective human ego was the realization ____.

The basic premise of the Gestalt principles of perception is that perceptual organization is ____.

Freud argued that whether an event happened in childhood ____.

The spontaneous understanding of a phenomenon is called ____.

In Tolman's system, the repetition of an act leads to ____.

A primary reason psychology so quickly embraced operationism was that it ____.

Wundt's system dealt only with consciousness because ____.

The term intervening variable refers to ____.

Hull proposed that to achieve a paradigm (in Kuhn's sense of the term) in psychology, one would have to implement:

Monads were defined as ____.

For Skinner, what is the primary characteristic of living things?

Which of the following did Tolman not consider to be a cause of behavior?

According to the book, Hull's "greatest asset was ____."

For the school of Gestalt psychology, "form" was ____.

Secondary drives are ____.

The Gestalt psychologists referred to Wundt's system as ____.

Operationism was ____.

The notion of the pleasure principle was borrowed by Freud from ____.

The dominant area of study for the neobehaviorists was ____.

The construct of the life space describes ____.

Gestalt psychology started as a movement opposed to ____.

"Apparent movement" is another term for ____.

Skinner defined a reflex as a(n) ____.

Question:

Which of the following is NOT an example of a primary drive?

Operationism means that a concept ____.

The Oedipal conflict occurs during the ____ stage of development.

The primary method of psychoanalysis was ____.

The Gestalt principles of organization ____.

One of the major reasons that Gestalt psychology failed to become popular in the United States apparently was ____.

Little perceptions" were ____.

"A state of tissue need that arouses or activates behavior" is a definition of ____.

In the case of Anna O., the recollections she revealed while under hypnosis involved ____.

When Gestalt psychology was in its infancy, which school(s) of thought was/were already established?

The Gestalt school's major difference with behaviorists was over the ____.

The spirit of mechanism in relation to the treatment of mental illness portrayed mentally ill persons as ____.

Hull intended to express the laws of behavior in the language of ____.

If seeing McDonald's golden arches decreases your hunger, then the arches are ____.

For Wertheimer, rote memorization and/or rote learning ____.

Concurrent with the rise of Gestalt psychology, the Zeitgeist in physics was embracing ____.

The goal of Freud's therapies was to ____.

By the era of Freud's medical training, the dominant view in psychiatry about the cause of mental illness was ____.