Psyc 375 Final Exam Questions 335 Questions With 100% Correct Answers

What was Edwin Ray Guthrie (1886-1959)'s notion of habit and how to break habits? {Ans: - habit is an act that has become associated with a large number of stimuli & the more stimuli that elicit the act, the stronger the habit is - bad habits can be broken by causing a response, other than the undesirable one, to be made in the presence of the stimuli that previously elicited the undesirable response}Summarize the work of Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969)? {Ans: One of the first modern cognitive psychologists. Noted for his use of schema to explain the reconstructive nature of memory. He found that information is always encoded, stored, and recalled in terms of an individual's preconceptions and attitudes}What was William McDougall's (1871-1938) type of behaviourism? {Ans: methodological behaviourist}According to Sigmund Freud, how does the ego deal with neurotic & moral anxiety? {Ans: must use ego defence mechanisms}What were the beliefs during the first stage of early American psychology (1640-1776)? {Ans: "Psychology existed for the sake of logic, and logic for the sake of God"}Describe the goal of Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology? {Ans: goal was to explain psychological phenomenon in neurophysical terms, applying