Review for Final Examination

The final will be cumulative, covering all the chapters assigned and the lectures. Approximately half of the questions will come from the earlier part of the course and half from the new material since the last examination. Half of the questions in each section will be multiple choice and the other half short answer. There will be a one page essay question over the new material as well. This examination will count as a regular exam. \

Earlier material:

The earlier study guides and earlier exams are still good guides for the final as are the old examinations. The emphases will be the same on this final examination. The questions will be a little more general on this exam but you need to review the basic terminology, the type of thought represented by the individuals (rationalism, empiricism, elementist, holist, structural, functional, structuralist, functionalist, act, Gestalt, etc.). For each of the major figures, consider what their major contribution or contributions were to psychology and something about the nature of their psychologies.

New Material:

The Dissolution of Orthodox Psychology. Chapter 21 and lectures. The topic of imageless thought ( pp 308-315) which was not covered in the earlier will be covered here as new material, so go back and review that discussion.

1. What is "orthodox psychology" as defined in class? Who are the major leaders and the schools involved?

2. What was a major agreement among the otherwise disagreeing schools of orthodox psychology?

3. How did the imageless thought controversy shake the faith of many psychologists in the value of introspection as a primary method in psychology? What, without going into great detail, are the basic issues of the imageless thought controversy and the major figures involved?

4. Know about Binet and the origin of the Simon-Binet test. Know about MA, CA.

5. Know about Stern's creation of IQ.

6. What was it about Binet's test that reinforced the idea eventually that it was behavior that was applicable and not introspective consciousness?

7. Know about Lewis Terman's role in Americanizing the Binet test and creating the Stanford Binet test.

8. Know about Hugo Münsterberg's work in applied psychology, especially his work on Trolleys.

9. How did Münsterberg's work in personnel psychology encourage the rise of behavioral research?

10. Know something about Walter Dill Scott's contributions to business psychology, particularly in advertising.

11. Know something about the work at Columbia University by Hollingworth and Strong on advertising.

12. What was the influence of the events of the First World War on testing and applied psychology?

13. How did the experience of the War change American psychology toward application and behavior?

Behaviorism. Chapter 22 and lectures

14. What was it in Watson's training at the University of Chicago that helped prepare him for the creation of behaviorism?

15. What was Watson trying to do with his behaviorism? What are the descriptive categories, his explanatory principles? What does it mean to have a "universal" discipline? What is the role of consciousness, imagery and thought in Watson's behaviorism?

16. How does prediction and control differ from the view of earlier psychologies that one seeks to understand the facts?.

17. Understand why the instructor lists behaviorism as being a structural psychology.

18. What were some of the advantages some of the younger psychologists saw in behaviorism?

19. How did the new studies on conditioning affect Watson's view of instinct?

20. Know something about Sechenov and Pavlov's work on conditioning.

21. How did Bekhterev's conditioning differ from that of Pavlov?

33. Know something about Thorndike's work on trial and error learning and his law of effect.

34. What was emotion in Watson's "system?" Thought?

I will not be asking questions about the Neo-behaviorisms ( pp. 484-494).

Gestalt Psychology. Chapter 23 and lectures.

35. How did Mach's concept of element influence Gestalt thought?

36. How did Gestalt psychologists use phenomenological observation and experimentation?

37. What is a demonstration in Gestalt Psychology.

38. Know what role the concept of phi had in Gestalt psychology and what the phi phenomenon is.

39. How does the Neckar cube demonstrate the concept of organization in perception?

40. Know the laws of Gestalt discussed in class and in the text.

41. What role did Wertheimer play in the creation of Gestalt psychology. What was the subject-matter of the first Gestalt experiments.

42. Know about Köhler's work with chimpanzees and the concepts of insight, set and detour that became a pert of general psychology.

43. Why did Gestalt psychology not need the concept of association? What took its place?

44. What was Koffka's concept of "convergence theory."

45. What role did Gestalt psychology play in American psychology in the 1930s-1950s?

Freudian Psychoanalysis Lectures and Ch. 24

46. What was Cabanis' doctrine of the mind/brain relationship that led to the somatic school of psychiatry?

47. What is the somatic theory of insanity. What were some observable supports for the notion?

48. What was the major problem with the view of insanity held by somatic psychiatry?

49. What was the situation surrounding Charcot's discovery of "functional" ailments?

50.. What was Charcot's influence on Freud?

51. What was the role of hypnotherapy in Charcot's therapy. In Freud's early therapy?

52. What was Josef Breuer's contribution to Freudian psychotherapy?

53. Know about the details of the Anna O case.

54. Know the early system of Freud and Breyer in explaining the conversion reaction (Hysteria).

55. What was the role of repression in Freud's psychoanalysis.

56. Know the terms, "complex indicators," "resistance," "censor," as they relate to Freud's psychoanalysis.

57. Know the role of "psychic causality" in Freud's theory ( eg. Freudian slip).

58. Know about Freud's dream theory and dream symbols.

50. Know about Freud's psychosexual theory of develoment, infantile sexuality.

51. Know about Thantos, Eros, ego, id, superego.

52. What was Freud's greatest contributin to psychology, according to the lecturer?

53. What was Freud's primary error that brought his system major problems?

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