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Column A. Concepts Emitted Response_____ Type R Conditioning_____ Inferiority Complex_____ Knowledge Community_____ Cognitive Maps_____ Symbolic Constructs_____ Syzygy_____ Neo-Freudians_____ Negative Reinforcement_____ Isomorphism_____ Fixed Interval Reinforcement_____ Interpersonal Theory_____ Type S Conditioning_____ Collective Unconscious_____ Resistance_____ "Biophilous" Character Type_____ Foundational Knowledge_____ Non-Foundational Knowledge_____ The Ten Neurotic Needs_____ Character Armor_____ Mandala_____ Social Interest_____ Libido_____ Shadow_____ Transference_____ Systems Thinking_____ |
Column B. Authors |
Part A. Key Terms |
Part B. Definitions 1. An academic discipline, profession, or other cultural group that is responsible for the practice of knowledge. 2. The images that live in the collective unconscious. 3. Anima + Animus. 4. According to Jung, generalized psychic energy. 5. Unconscious mental mechanisms which prevent the individual from experiencing anxiety. 6. The archetype that incorporates and expresses the negative aspects of the personality. 7. A defense mechanism that involves taking on the personality characteristics of another person, usually someone who is admired. 8. The tendency to project parental characteristics and issues on to the psychoanalyst. 9. The theory of knowledge; the philosophical study of the origins, presuppositions, nature, extent, and veracity of knowledge. 10. Experienced order in space is always structurally identical with a functional order in the distribution of the underlying brain processes. 11. Socially justified beliefs that all of us agree on. 12. The technical psychological term for "knowing" or "knowledge." 13. Human beings naturally belong to groups and strive to contribute to society. 14. A defense mechanism characterized by attributing undesirable characteristics of the self to another person. 15. Achieving knowledge, especially self-knowledge, by asking questions and pursuing the answers to their logical conclusions. 16. The holistic personality theory of Kurt Lewin 17. A pleasant or rewarding stimulus. 18. Removal of an irritant or uncomfortable stimulus. 19. The disciplined descriptive study of experience itself; a major historical antecedent of Gestalt, existential, and humanistic psychologies. 20. Abbreviated theoretical representation of intervening variables tied to operational definitions 21. Gestalt psychology's term for the perceptual tendency to complete an incomplete figure. 22. Shaping behavior through the use of reward or reinforcement. 23. Representation of the environment in the nervous system that are acquired through learning. 24. The psychosexual stage preceding adolescence 25. J. C. Smuts term for the importance of studying organized wholes; an important influence on both Gestalt psychology and humanistic psychology, as well as on Adler. 26. A spontaneous behavior that can be shaped by reward or reinforcement. 27. The practical application of Skinner's principles of operant conditioning, especially in therapy and institutional settings 28. A reinforcement schedule based on time. 29. A reinforcement schedule based on frequency of response. 30. The computer simulation or replication of complex human cognitive processes. 31. The general application of holistic or gestalt principles in the physical, biological, and social sciences. 32. A type of explanation that can be traced from the pre-Socratics to the behaviorists. 33. Skinner's term for "classical conditioning." 34. Skinner's term for "operant conditioning." 35. A symmetrical design symbolizing archetypal wholeness. |
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1 = earliest; 3 = most recent
Example:
2 Max Wertheimer1 Stoicism
3 Information Theory
1.
_____Little Albert
_____Ivan Pavlov
_____Edward Chace Tolman
2.
_____The Unconscious
_____Systems Thinking
_____Operant Conditioning
3.
_____Structuralism
_____Gestalt Psychology
_____Cogntive Science
4.
_____Cognitive Psychology
_____B. F. Skinner
_____Wilhelm Wundt
5.
_____Sigmund Freud
_____Socrates
_____Alfred Adler
6.
_____Kenneth Bruffee
_____William James
_____Karen Horney
7.
_____Kurt Lewin
_____Wolfgang Kohler
_____Edmund Husserl
8.
_____Aristotle
_____Ivan Pavlov
_____Clark L. Hull
9.
_____Neo-Freudian Psychoanalysis
_____Information Theory
_____Skepticism
10.
_____Artificial Intelligence
_____Repression
_____Style of life
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1. What is a principal difference between Plato's and Jung's theory of "archetypes."
a. Jung sees archetypes as evolving, while Plato does not.b. Plato's concept is a more complete "systems theory."
c. Plato's theory incorporates Heraclitus' concept of "being as flux," while Jung embodies Parmenides concept of "being as unchangeable."
2. Which theorist has the most optimistic view of the content and dynamics of the unconscious?
a. Freudb. Jung
c. Harry Stack Sullivan
3. "Individuation" is
a. The process of identity formation during the adolescent identity crisis.b. The process of self- growth by which the individual seeks to unify the various aspects of his personality into a spiritually whole self.
c. The process of overcoming the "inferiority complex."
4. What do the major neo-Freudians have in common?
a. The all accept Freud's basic theory of the id, ego, and super-ego.b. They are all concerned with how social influences shape individual lives, particularly in the form of relationships or interactions with other people.
c. They see mental illness as a form of maladaptive behavior, which does not work to serve the patient's welfare.
5. The disease in which a patient loses a normal physical ability for psychological reasons is called:
a. dysfunctionb. anal retentive
c. hysteria
6. Which of the following was NOT concerned with social philosophy and criticism?
a. Erich Frommb. Sigmund Freud
c. Ivan Pavlov
7. Who was the founder of the interpersonal school of psychology?
a. Wilhelm Reichb. Karen Horney
c. Harry Stack Sullivan
8. Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's five stages of psychosexual development.
a. Basic trustb. Latency
c. Anal
9. Which of these psycho analysts did not see the future as an important determinant of behavior?
a. Freudb. Adler
c. Jung
10. Which of the following was NOT one of Freud's major contributions?
a. His theory of the unconscious.b. His theory of the role of culture in the development of character types.
c. His understanding of the importance of childhood experiences in adult behavior.
1. Pavlov found that placing food powder in the dog's mouth increased the saliva flow. In this situation, the increased saliva flow was a(n)
a. unconditioned stimulus (US)b. unconditioned response (UR)
c. conditioned stimulus (CS)
d conditioned response (CR)
2. For Watson, the goal of psychology was to:
a. solve the mind-body problemb. predict and control behavior
c. discover the elements of thought
d. show that humans & nonhuman animals are essentially the same.
3. In their research on Albert, Watson and Raynor found that in addition to becoming fearful of the rat, Albert became fearful of other furry objects. Albert's fear of objects other than thee rat demonstrated:
a. discriminationb. disinhibition
c. generalization
d. spontaneous recovery
4. With their research on the infant named Albert, Watson and Raynor demonstrated that:
a. emotions could be displaced to a stimulus other than the one that had originally elicited the emotionsb. bodily structure interacts with experience to produce personality
c. there are important individual differences among people
d. intelligence is only partially genetically determined.
5. The neobehaviorists believe all of the following except:
a. research on nonhumans could provide useful information about humansb. all theoretical terms had to be defined operationally
c. the learning process was of prime importance and therefore should be studied intensely
d. to employ theoretical terms was to bring metaphysical speculation back into psychology
6. Tolman believed that:
a. learning occurred independently of reinforcementb. if no reinforcement occurred, no learning occurred
c. reinforcement governed classical conditioning but not instrumental conditioning
d. reinforcement governed instrumental conditioning but not classical conditioning
7. According to Hull, for learning to take place, a response must be followed by:
a. confirmationb. a satisfying state of affairs
c. drive-reduction
d. a wave of electrical activity through the frontal lobe of the cortex
8. According to Skinner, the most important aspect of operant behavior was that it:
a. was elicited by a known stimulusb. could be explained by Pavlovian principles
c. was controlled by its consequences
d. produced a satisfying state of affairs.
9. For Skinner, the environment was important because it:
a. elicited behaviorb. selected behavior
c. provided the organism with the opportunity to test its expectancies
d. allowed the organism to develop a cognitive map
10. According to Skinner, punishment is widely used in efforts to modify behavior because it:
a. is the most effective method availableb. is reinforcing to the punisher
c. weakens undesirable behavior just as reinforcement strengthens desirable behavior
d. has the advantage of increasing stress tolerance in those who are punished
11. For Gestaltists, the proper subject matter for psychology was:
a. operant behaviorb. S-R associations
c. mental elements
d. phenomenological experience
12. Which of the following observations launched the school of Gestalt psychology:
a. our perceptions are more than, or different from, the sensations that make them upb. humans are only quantitatively different from other animals
c. objective reality and subjective reality are really the same thing
d. introspection can be used to study the contents of the human mind
13. The ______________ asserts that all cognitive experiences will tend to be as organized, symmetrical, simple, and regular as they can be, given the pattern of brain activity at any given moment:
a. principle of inclusivenessb. law of Prägnanz
c. constancy hypothesis
d. principle of continuity
14. _______________ refers to the fact that often during psychoanalysis the therapist develops strong emotional feelings toward the patient:
a. Resistanceb. Transference
c. Countertransference
d. Anticathexis
15. _______________ refers to the fact that often during psychoanalysis a patient develops strong emotional feelings toward the therapist:
a. Resistanceb. Transference
c. Countertransference
d. Anticathexis
16. According to Freud, at any given stage of development, the areas of the body on which sexual pleasure was concentrated was called the:
a. G spotb. erogenous zone
c. naughty part
d. thanatos
17. According to Freud, the ego is governed by the ______________ principle:
a. pleasureb. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal
18. According to Freud, the id is governed by the ______________ principle:
a. pleasureb. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal
19. In Jung's theory, which of the following means about the same thing as "meaningful coincidence":a. individuation
b. teleology
c. synchronicity
d. self-actualization
20. According to Jung, ______________ is the process by which the various components of the personality are recognized and given expression within the context of a person's life:
a. teleologyb. displacement
c. individuation
d. thanatos
21. Jung's theory was criticized for being all of the following except:
a. mysticalb. unscientific
c. incomprehensible
d. over-emphasizing sex
22. Adler believed that all humans started life with
a. feelings of inferiorityb. weak organs
c. a collective unconscious
d. primordial guilt
23. According to Horney, the difference between neurotic and normal people regarding the use of major adjustment patterns was that:
a. only neurotics use themb. only normal people use them
c. normal people use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas neurotics attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them
d. neurotics use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas normal people attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them
24. Horney believed that women often feel inferior to men because:
a. women are physically inferior to menb. of penis envy
c. women are culturally inferior to men
d. anatomy is destiny
25. Who claimed that anatomy is destiny:
a. Freudb. Adler
c. Jung
d. Horney
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