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EXAM 3
Review Notes
Please note: In this document, I am including broad subsections of each chapter that I
recommend you prepare for Exam 3 on 4/28.
Review all quizzes from Chapter 9-14.
Chapter 9: Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences
Towards a Science of Behavior
The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism:
Jacques Loeb
a. Rats, Ants and the Animal Mind
Edward Thorndike
a. Connectionism
b. Laws of learning
Ivan Pavlov
a. Based on class notes and presentation, develop an understanding about classical
conditioning.
b. Extinction and spontaneous recovery
Conditioned reflexes
Chapter 10: Behaviorism: The Beginnings
John B. Watson
a. Child rearing practices
The methods of behaviorism
The subject matter of behaviorism
a.
b.
c.
d.
Instincts
Emotions
Albert, Peter and the Rabbits (also read the little Albert article)
Thought Processes
Chapter 11: Behaviorism: After the Founding
Operationism
Edward Tolman
a. Purposive behavior
b. Intervening variables
c. Learning theory
B.F. Skinner
a. Skinner’s Behaviorism
b. Operant Conditioning
c. Schedules of reinforcement
d. Successive Approximation: The shaping of behavior
Albert Bandura
a. Social Cognitive Theory
b. Vicarious reinforcement
c. Self-efficacy: Believing You Can
d. Research results on Self-Efficacy
Julian Rotter
a. Locus of Control
CH 12: Gestalt Psychology
The Phi Phenomenon: A challenge to Wundtian Psychology
Kurt Koffka
Wolfgang Kohler
Gestalt principles of Perceptual Organization
Gestalt Studies of learning: Insight and the Mentality of Apes
CH13: Psychoanalysis: The Beginnings
A New School of Thought
Sigmund Freud
a. The Strange case of Anna O
b. The Sexual Basis of Neurosis
c. Studies on Hysteria
d. The Childhood Seduction Controversy
Freud’s method of treatment
Psychoanalysis as a system of personality
a. Instincts
b. Levels of personality
c. Psychosexual stages of personality development
Criticisms of psychoanalysis
CH14: Psychoanalysis: After the Founding
The Evolution of Personality Theory: Humanistic Psychology
Understand third-force psychology
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers