PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Epiphenomenalism, Reductionism, Psychoanalysis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ronald Sheese

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1-5 identify each of the following concepts and explain its importance in our study of psychology this term: the theory of evolution, conflict in the freudian unconscious, reductionism, schedule of reinforcement in operant conditioning, epiphenomenalism. 6. a common laboratory procedure for classical conditioning involves directing a puff of air into the eye of an immobilized rabbit. The automatic response to this stimulus is an eye blink. In the conditioning procedure a tone is sounded just prior to delivering the puff of the air. Identify the cs, c r, ucs, and ucr in this situation. Credible shrinking room" including a short statement of its purpose and an indication of any independent variables, dependent variables, or controls involved. For any independent variable you mention, also indicate how it was operationalized. Explain the meaning of this example: summarize the criticism of introspection psychology expressed by each of the alternative approaches to the study of psychological phenomena.