Important rules:

Questions assignment should be 1,500-2,000 words in total.

In general, be as explicit in your answers as possible, answer all parts of the questions and give definitions for terms where possible.

Questions will often relate explicitly to particular parts of the PowerPoint summaries which you will use to help you navigate relevant material. DO NOT use any outside source other than ppt slides and articles. You must still put things in your own words or paraphrase.

You do not need to provide APA references or cite material, just add general page number plus para where you got the idea from (example: PPT1 pg.2, article’s author’s name pg.2 and para 1). Make sure that you are not just copy and pasting things over from readings or the slides.

IMPORTANT: (1) you must paraphrase material when making use of it and (2) you cannot use any sources outside of provided sources.

Exam Two (50 marks) (due Apr 15)

1. Show how a school-based, APA-based, and comparative history of psychology textbook-based approach can lead to different conclusions about the history of psychoanalysis in psychology. (6 marks) What general conclusions about the historiography of psychology might you draw from this fact? (2 marks)

2. Why is Anna O. often considered to be the founding case of psychoanalysis? (2 marks) What reasons are there to be skeptical about this claim? (2 marks)

3. Why might it be appropriate to think of the Little Albert study as an origin myth? (2 marks) Use Harris’ (2020) discussion of the Little Albert study to show your understanding of traditional and critical history. (4 marks)

4. What is Skinner’s (1990) vision for psychology and why does he think cognitive explanation has become favoured? (4 marks) Discuss Buss’ (2020) criticism of Skinner and Buss’ argument that evolutionary psychology is a scientific revolution. (4 marks)

5. What role do positivism and operationism seem to play in the reception to Gestalt psychology by Boring (1936) and the field more generally? (6 marks)

6. Why/why not does it makes sense to think of the developmental approach as a school? (4 marks)

7. Describe the intellectual roots of the humanistic approach and discuss how they were used to advocate for humanistic psychology in the discipline. (4 marks) Despite the differences between humanistic and positive psychology, what is a common criticism of both? (2 marks)

8. Use Watrin and Darwich (2012) to characterize the common understanding of the cognitive revolution and the main problems with the cognitivist historiography of behaviourism. (6 marks) Why/why not was the cognitive revolution a scientific revolution? (2 marks)