History and
Systems Test #3 Review Spring 2008
Ch. 12, 13, 14,
16, 17, 18
Chapter 12
- Unconditioned response- definition and application
with Pavlov’s experiment
- Details of Pavlov’s experiment with salivating dogs
- Associationism- definition and relation to Pavlov’s
experiment
- Thorndike’s law of effect
- Components of behaviorism as set out in Watson’s
“Psychology as a behaviorist views it” lecture
- The goal of psychology according to Watson
- Generalization- definition and its relation to
Watson’s experiment with little Albert
- Watson’s explanation of learning
- Radical behaviorism- definition
Chapter 13
- Logical positivism
- Operational definition – definition and use
- Neobehaviorism- definition and basic ideas
- Tolman’s ideas on intervening variables, physiological
process, learning
- Results of Tolman and Honzik’s (1930) experiment
- Skinner’s view on respondent and operant behavior, the
most important part of operant behavior, his definition of a reinforcer, why
punishment is used, the best way to deal with undesirable behavior
Chapter 14
- Beginning of the school of Gestalt psychology,
Wertheimer’s experiment
- Interaction of sensory information and brain in
conscious experience
- Famous experiments
- Law of Pragnanz
- Most common of perceptual principles
Chapter 16
- Origins of psychoanalysis
- Transference- definition
- Basic ideas about psychoanalysis as set forth in
Studies on Hysteria
- Freud’s causal explanation for hysteria, his final
ideas on sexual fantasies, definition of the id and ego, when neurotic
anxiety arises, his ideas on ego defense mechanisms
Chapter 17
- Jung’s ideas on the collective conscious,
self-actualization, and the meaning of dreams
- Adler’s beliefs on compensation, feelings of
inferiority, the conceptual development of a child, effective lifestyles,
his relationship to existentialists
- Horney’s two basic needs of children, 3 major
adjustment patterns, ideas of female inferiority
Chapter 18
- Definition of phenomenology
- Major ideas of Heidegger and May
- Relationship of freedom and responsibility
- Basic ideas of humanism
- Hierarchy of needs
- Major ideas of Rogers
- Similarities and differences between existential
psychology & humanistic psychology