Study Guide   Exam 4     Psy 415

Major essay topics:Roots of neobehaviorism; purposive behaviorism,
cognitive maps and reinforcement; Hull's intervening variables, e.g.,
habit strength; operationism; theory and quantification; Skinner and
descriptive behaviorism.  
Gender bias, psychological concepts, theories and the interpretation of data;
Falsification, immunization and dogmatism;
Development of institutional care of the psychotic; 
Diagnostic categories, psychosis and the medical model; 
Hypnosis and its explanations; 
Various criticisms of and reactions to the medical model;
Criticisms of the enlightenment; The importance of feeling & choice; 
Theory of the unconscious, especially Leibniz,Herbart,Fechner and 
Freud; 
Fantasy and reality in the mind of the psychoanalytic patient; 
Conflict between the individual and civilization;
Criticisms of Freud 

As before, the terms you would include in answers to the topics above will 
provide material for the IDs