How Has the Status of the Concept of the Unconscious

question 24

Multiple Choice

How has the status of the concept of the unconscious changed through psychology's history since Freud's time?

• A) It hasn't, really: Psychologists have continued to embrace the notion of the unconscious since the time of Freud.
• B) Psychologists have generally rejected the concept of the unconscious ever since Freud's death.
• C) In recent decades, many psychologists have rediscovered the concept of the unconscious.
• D) In recent years, an increasing number of psychologists have rejected the notion of the unconscious.

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Definitions:

Disjunct

Used in logic to refer to an either/or proposition where two options are presented and at least one of them must be true.

Disjunction

A logical operator that results in truth if at least one of its components is true.

Contingency

An event or condition that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty, often dependent on other events happening.

Conjunct

A conjunct is a component of a compound sentence formed by the logical connective ‘and’, contributing to the compound's overall truth value.