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| According to John Watson, behavior is governed primarily by | the environment |
| Watson believed that psychology should | only study observable behavior |
| Which of the following psychologists would have been most likely to assert that "free will is an illusion"? | B.F. Skinner |
| According to Skinner, the fundamental principle of operant conditioning is that organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by | favorable consequences |
| Skinner would agree with all the following statements except: | free will |
| In Pavlov's principle experiment, if a dog salivates after hearing a tone the salivation would be | the conditioned response |
| In Pavlov's principle experiment, when the dog salivated after receiving meat powder, the salivation was | the UR |
| Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate to the sound of a tone. He then paired a light with the tone until the dog salivated to the light alone. | This is an example of higher-order conditioning |
| Pavlov believed that the acquisition of a conditioned response depended on the | stimulus contiguity of the CS and UCS |
| Wundt defined psychology as the scientific study of | conscious experience |
| The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter is | Wilhelm Wundt |
| The notion that unconscious motivations can influence our overt behavior is most consistent with the views of | Sigmund Freud |
| Sigmund Freud developed an innovative procedure for treating people with psychological problems, which he called | psychoanalysis |
| The theorist who advanced the wish-fulfillment idea about dreaming was | Freud |
| Inga keeps distressing thoughts and feelings buried, according to Sigmund Freud she is using ____________________ to ward off anxiety. | Repression |
| Freud ascribed great importance to sexual and aggressive impulses, mainly because | they are rigidly controlled by society |
| According to Freud, unresolved unconscious conflicts often produce | anxiety |
| Failure to resolve conflict at a particular stage of psychosexual development may lead to failure to move forward to the next stage, a phenomenon that Freud called | fixation |
| True or False. According to Freud, the preconscious contains thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior. | False |
| Four-year-old Sam has erotically tinged desires for his mother and also feels hostility to his father. Freud would conclude that Sam is experiencing | Oedipal complex |
| The superego is Freud's term for | the moral component of personality |
| The concept of "stream of consciousness" is associated with | William James |