What were the basic ideas and who were the important people behind the early approaches known as psychoanalysis?
What will be an ideal response?
Psychoanalysis - the theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
-Freud proposed that there is an unconscious (unaware) mind into which we push, or repress, all of our threatening urges and desires.
-He believed that these repressed urges, in trying to surface, created nervous disorders.
-Freud stressed the importance of early childhood experiences.
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The close, emotional bond of affection between an infant and its caregiver is called
a. attachment. b. dependency. c. imprinting. d. identification.
Five-year-old Louis can conserve liquid, but not volume. According to Case's neo-Piagetian theory, one explanation for Louis's differential success would be that
A) he has more experience manipulating volume than he does manipulating liquid. B) he lives in a culture that does not encourage mastery of conservation. C) the processing demands of a conservation-of-volume task are greater than those of a conservation-of-liquid task. D) familiar glasses were used in the liquid problem, whereas less familiar glasses were used in the volume problem.
Susan learned to ride a bicycle as a child. She went off to college and did not ride a bicycle again until she was an adult. Despite not having been on a bicycle in years, Susan will likely be able to ride one again as an adult without much difficulty. Susan’s riding ability is an example of _______ memory.
a. semantic b. episodic c. procedural d. sensory
When discussing the relationship between short-term and long-term memory,
the authors of your textbook use the analogy of a warehouse with filing cabinets and a desk. As information enters the warehouse, it is first placed on the desk. Because the desk is small, it must be quickly cleared off to make room for new information. While unimportant items are simply tossed away, personally or culturally meaningful information is placed in the files, which represent a. working memory. b. sensory memory. c. short-term memory. d. long-term memory.