AU - PSYC 375 Unit 5 Exam Questions and Answers

AU - PSYC 375 Unit 5 Exam Questions and Answers Freud's preferred ______ as his method of treatment because, thought it was more difficult to arrive at the original traumatic experience, once the experience was acknowledges it was available to the patient to deal with in a rational manner: - Answer-Free association Adler believed that a weakness could be converted into a strength through: - Answer-Overcompensation Sigmund Freud viewed the ego defenses as obstacles to the understanding of the unconscious, while Anna Freud viewed them: - Answer-As having independent importance Which of the following observations by Wertheimer launched the school of Gestalt psychology? - Answer-Our perceptions are more than, or different from, the sensations that make them up Kohler criticized the representation of intelligence as an IQ score because: - Answer-Doing so obscured important difference among mental abilities and confused precise measurement with an understanding of what was being measured According to Kohler, patterns of brain activity and patterns of conscious experience are always structurally equivalent. This described the gestalt concept of: - Answer-Psychophysical isomorphism In the case of cognitive experience, the important point is that fields of brain activity _______ sensory data and give that data characteristics it would not otherwise possess. - Answer-Transform When one has mixed feelings about one goal, what type of conflict is this? - Answer-Approach-avoidance conflict For Koffka, the _______ environment constituted the physical environment and the _______ environment constituted subjective reality. - Answer-Geographical; Behavioural Gestalt psychology can be seen as an effort to model psychology after _______ instead of _______. - Answer-Field theory; Newtonian physics According to Wertheimer, productive thinking occurred as the result of: - Answer-Understanding a problem