AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF
PSYCHOLOGY (HERGENHAHN) UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Abelard, Peter
Answer:
-A Scholastic philosopher
-used dialectic method on Christianity
-a conceptualist.
Question:
According to Hegel, the fundamental unity of the universe toward which human
history progresses via the dialectic process.
Answer:
Absolute, The
Question:
Founded by Franz Brentano in opposition to structuralism, a school of psychology
that focuses on what the mind does rather than what is contained within it.
Answer:
Act Psychology
Question:
Adaptive Act
Answer:
Carr's term for a unit of behavior with three characteristics: a motive, an
environmental setting, and a response that satisfies the need.
Question:
Adaptive features
Answer:
Characteristics of an organism directly related to its survival and reproduction in a
given environment.
Question:
Adequate stimulation
Answer:
by Johannes Müller, each type of sensory nerve is maximally responsive to a
certain form of stimulation
Question:
An early follower of Freud who left the Freudian camp and created his own
theory of personality, which emphasized the conscious mind and the individual
creation of a worldview, guiding fictions, and a lifestyle in order to overcome
feelings of inferiority and to seek perfection.
, Answer:
Adler, Alfred (1870-1937)
Question:
Aesthetic Stage
Answer:
According to Kierkegaard, the first stage on the road to full personal freedom,
characterized by egotism and hedonism, and ending in boredom and despair.
Question:
Alcmaeon
Answer:
One of the first Greek physicians to move away from the magic and superstition of
temple medicine and toward a naturalistic understanding and treatment of illness.
Question:
Allegory of the Cave
Answer:
Plato's description of individuals who live their lives in accordance with the
shadows of reality provided by sensory experience instead of in accordance with
the true reality beyond sensory experience.
Question:
Altruistic surrender
Answer:
As proposed by Anna Freud, an ego defense mechanism whereby a person
avoids anxiety by living vicariously through someone else.
Question:
Plato's illustration of his contention that there is a hierarchy of understanding.
-understanding is based on images of empirical objects.
-understanding of empirical objects themselves, which results only in opinion.
-understanding of abstract mathematical principles.
- understanding of the forms. The highest understanding (true knowledge) is an
-understanding of the form of the good that includes a knowledge of all forms
and their organization.
Answer:
Analogy of the divided line
Question:
Anatomy is destiny
Answer:
The contention by Freud that gender is the primary determinant of main
personality traits; opposed within the school of psychoanalysis by Karen Horney.
Question:
Angell, James Rowland
Answer:
PSYCHOLOGY (HERGENHAHN) UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Abelard, Peter
Answer:
-A Scholastic philosopher
-used dialectic method on Christianity
-a conceptualist.
Question:
According to Hegel, the fundamental unity of the universe toward which human
history progresses via the dialectic process.
Answer:
Absolute, The
Question:
Founded by Franz Brentano in opposition to structuralism, a school of psychology
that focuses on what the mind does rather than what is contained within it.
Answer:
Act Psychology
Question:
Adaptive Act
Answer:
Carr's term for a unit of behavior with three characteristics: a motive, an
environmental setting, and a response that satisfies the need.
Question:
Adaptive features
Answer:
Characteristics of an organism directly related to its survival and reproduction in a
given environment.
Question:
Adequate stimulation
Answer:
by Johannes Müller, each type of sensory nerve is maximally responsive to a
certain form of stimulation
Question:
An early follower of Freud who left the Freudian camp and created his own
theory of personality, which emphasized the conscious mind and the individual
creation of a worldview, guiding fictions, and a lifestyle in order to overcome
feelings of inferiority and to seek perfection.
, Answer:
Adler, Alfred (1870-1937)
Question:
Aesthetic Stage
Answer:
According to Kierkegaard, the first stage on the road to full personal freedom,
characterized by egotism and hedonism, and ending in boredom and despair.
Question:
Alcmaeon
Answer:
One of the first Greek physicians to move away from the magic and superstition of
temple medicine and toward a naturalistic understanding and treatment of illness.
Question:
Allegory of the Cave
Answer:
Plato's description of individuals who live their lives in accordance with the
shadows of reality provided by sensory experience instead of in accordance with
the true reality beyond sensory experience.
Question:
Altruistic surrender
Answer:
As proposed by Anna Freud, an ego defense mechanism whereby a person
avoids anxiety by living vicariously through someone else.
Question:
Plato's illustration of his contention that there is a hierarchy of understanding.
-understanding is based on images of empirical objects.
-understanding of empirical objects themselves, which results only in opinion.
-understanding of abstract mathematical principles.
- understanding of the forms. The highest understanding (true knowledge) is an
-understanding of the form of the good that includes a knowledge of all forms
and their organization.
Answer:
Analogy of the divided line
Question:
Anatomy is destiny
Answer:
The contention by Freud that gender is the primary determinant of main
personality traits; opposed within the school of psychoanalysis by Karen Horney.
Question:
Angell, James Rowland
Answer:
