Ch 1: The Study of the History of Psychology – Flashcards
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The new discipline of psychology was the product of the union of these two disciplines.
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philosophy and physiology
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This organization was founded in 1969
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International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Time period in which Psychology became an independent discipline
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Last quarter of the nineteenth century
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Perhaps the most valuable outcome of the study of the history of psychology is that one will learn the...
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Relationships among ideas, theories, and methods
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Which psychologist burned his/her own letters, manuscripts, and research notes before s/he died?
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John Watson
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The three contextual forces in the history of psychology
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Economic opportunities, wars, and discrimination
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Julian Rotter, a leading personality theorist was told that this group of individuals "simply could not get academic jobs, regardless of their credentials."
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People of Jewish decent
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In terms of age, as a scientific discipline psychology is
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one of the youngest and one of the oldest
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Modern psychology and ancient Greek philosophy shared an interest in the same kinds of questions about this subject matter.
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Human nature
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The lack of jobs in academic settings for PhDs lead to a surge in the practice of applied psychology -- in other words, the development of applied psychology was a direct consequence of this contextual force.
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Economics
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History ignores the work of the majority of
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All psychologists
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The naturalistic view of history allows for this type of discovery
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Simultaneous
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This school of thought deals with how the conscious mind enables and facilitates one's adaptation to one's environment
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Functionalist
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This school of thought that emphasizes the study of conscious experience and the wholeness of human nature.
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Humanistic
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This journal began publication in 1965?
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History of the behavioral sciences
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This eminent historian called the process of replacing one paradigm with another a scientific revolution.
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Thomas Kuhn
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the intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times
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Zeitgeist
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This school of thought is distinct in its focus on the role of the unconscious in determining behavior.
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Psychoanalytic
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This school of thought focuses on the processes of knowing and thus represents a return to the study of conscious processes.
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Cognitive
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This feature of modern psychology distinguishes the discipline from its antecedents
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Its methodology
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The terms ego and id, which do not precisely represent Freud's ideas, are examples of this phenomenon of translation
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Data distortion
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Division 26 of this professional organization is concerned with the study of the discipline's history.
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American psychological association
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This school of thought that deals solely with observable behaviors that can be described in objective terms.
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Behaviorist
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According to your text, it was so difficult for Jewish psychologists to get a job that some resorted to changing their name to something that didn't seem Jewish -- a product of this contextual force.
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Prejudice and discrimination
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Industrial/organizational psychology and clinical psychology grew because of the demands created by this contextual force
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The world wars
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"The man makes the times," reflects which view of history?
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Personalistic
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The hallmark of psychology's separation from philosophy was its reliance on
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Experimentation
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A group of psychologists who become associated ideologically, and sometimes geographically, with the leader of a movement. Typically, members share a theoretical or systematic orientation and investigate similar problems.
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School of thought
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This school of thought deals with conscious experience as it is dependent on the experiencing person
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Structuralist
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This school of thought focuses on learning and perception and emphasizes the combination of elements to produce new patterns.
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Gestalt
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Psychology is marked by diversity and divisiveness, but studying its history provides these characteristics
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Cohesiveness and common grounds
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This theory suggests that the times make the person.
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Naturalistic
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techniques and principles employed in historical research
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Historiography
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view that progress and change in scientific history are attributable to the ideas of unique individuals
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Personalistic theory
