Exam 9: The Age of Schools

The nomothetic and idiographic approaches respectively focus on general laws and individual processes.

The major schools of psychology flourished mostly during the

Describe the orientation of each of the five schools to the issue of whether psychology should remain a "pure science" or should concentrate on applications as well.

Which of the schools was most concerned with the adaptation of the organism to its environment?

Which of the schools argued that each of the other schools failed to recognize the importance of unconscious processes?

What was the major focus of each of the five schools?

Which of the schools argued that all the other schools were too associationistic and elementistic?

Atomism to some extent characterized all of the schools EXCEPT

Which decades of the 20th century are generally regarded as "the age of schools?"

Quantification characterized which of these schools?

The schools became more tolerant of one another by the middle of the 20th century.

Critical empiricism and the laboratory study of psychological processes characterized each of the schools EXCEPT

The psychoanalytic school emphasized mainly

The schools differed in the extent to which they believed that psychology should be applied to the solution of individual and social problems.

What happened to each of the schools during the middle of the 20th century?

The Gestalt school emphasized mainly

Which of the schools denied the validity of any subjective data?

The structuralist school emphasized mainly

Which of the schools persisted beyond the middle of the 20th century?

The behaviorist school emphasized mainly