History of Psychology Final

The notion of the pleasure principle was borrowed by Freud from

Fechner

According to Freud, the “third shock” to the collective human ego was the realization

that humans are not the rational commanders of their lives

A topic addressed by the psychoanalysis and essentially ignored by the other schools of psychology was

the unconscious

As a result of Freud’s analysis of his own dreams, he recognized

all the chices are correct

the person who most strongly influenced humane reforms for the mentally ill in the US was

Dix

The beginning of psychoanalysis is considered to be indicated by the publication of

Studies on Hysteria

The Oedipal conflict occurs during the —- stage of development

phallic

Freud found that the free association method

did not always operate freely because of resistance

Freud died as a result of

morphine overdose

Triechs were, in Freuds system,

humans motivation forces

The concept of threshold of consiousness is attributed to

Herbart

The goal of Freud’s therapies was to

make the unconscious conscious

which of the following is an original idea created by Freud, and not his predecessors

None of the above

In Freud’s system, personality development is built on the

psychosexual stages

A major theme of Freud’s system, borrowed from Darwin, was the

importance od the sex drive throughout life

psychoanalysis was eradicated in Germany by

the Nazi party

By the 1930’s and 1940’s, psychoanalysis

was wholeheartedly embraced by the American public

Experimental research on Fredian theory has shown that

All the choices are correct

— is the process of forcefully ejecting or excluding from consciousness any unacceptable ideas, memories, and desires.

Repression

The analyst ____ broke with Freud over his claim that women feel inferior to men

Karen Horney

The most outstanding feature of Lewin’s social psychology is

group dynamics

For Mach, sensations are

independent of the elements of which they are composed

For Brentabo, the subject matter of psychology was

experiences

Kohler argued that trial-and-error learning

was a consequence of not allowing the subject to see the whole situation

The essence of the Gesalt system is found in the work of the philosopher

Kant

In the Gesalt view, learning entails

a restructuring of the psychological enviroment

The construct of the life space describes

the person’s psychological field

Gestalt psychologists believed that

there is more to perception than meets the eye

Kohlers basic criterion for intelligence was

the ability to solve problems

In the original source material from The Mentality of Apes, Kohler argued that “a particular difficulty must lie in the

problem itself

“Apparent movement” is another term for

the phi phenomenon

The Gestalt principals of organization

are present in the stimuli themselves

The Gestalt psychologists argued that reduction to the elements of experience

All the choices are correct

According to Lewin, life space

corresponds to all the events that can influence a person’s behavior

An analysis of an overt behacior in Lewin’s system requires a consideration of

All the choices are correct

Who was a subject to Wertheimer’s research on the perception of apparent movement

Koffka and Kohler

Contrary to the notion of a passive mind, as portrayed by the British empiricists, the German philosopher Kant held that the mind

Actively organizes sensory information in a coherent experience

In what way was the phi phenomenon a challenge to Wundt’s system

The phi phenomenon could not be reduced to its basic elements

Kohlers findings occurred simultaneously with ___ discovery of ___

Yerkes’; ideational learning

The Gestalt psychologists maintained that a correspondence called __ exists between perceptual activity and brain activity

ismorphin

The essence of the Gestalt system is found in the work of the philosopher

Kant

In the Gestalt view, learning entails

a restrocturing of the psycholoigcal eviroment