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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
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