History Of Psychology Analysis – Flashcards

In the 1970s, the publication of the research of John Garcia was significantly delayed because

The viewpoint that whatever discovery was about to happen today, Freud would discover it would be an argument for which of the following theories

Psychology became an independent discipline during the

The three contextual forces in the history of psychology were

The question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities refers to

Descartes posited that the mind

The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to experience is

Descartes is often called the author of the theory of

The doctrine that acts are determined by past events is

Contemporary cognitive psychologists’ computer model of artificial intelligence is a direct descendant of

The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry is

The doctrine that considers the facts of the universe to be sufficiently explained in physical terms by the existence and nature of matter is

Before Descartes, the accepted point of view was that the interaction between mind and body was essentially unidirectional, that the

James Mill: ____; John Stuart Mill: ____.

Hartley argued that the human brain and nervous system transmitted impulses

Hume’s response to Locke’s and Berkeley’s arguments about objective versus subjective reality was that

Association in time or space defines

John Stuart Mill’s metaphor of mental chemistry came to be known as

Empiricism attributes all knowledge to

Both the term and concept of positivism represent the thought of

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, no sound occurs; in fact, the tree doesn’t exist until someone perceives it. This argument illustrates the position of

A fundamental difference between Descartes’s psychology and that of Locke was their position about the existence of

What is psychology

This person’s two major contributions to the new psychology involved the two-point threshold and the just noticeable difference

The point of sensitivity below which no sensation can be detected and above which sensation can be experienced is a definition of the

With regard to the speed of the nerve impulse, perhaps the most important conclusion of Helmholtz’s research for psychology was the determination

Who devised a theory of color vision as well as conducted research on audition

Electrical stimulation as a method of mapping the cerebral cortex was introduced by

Fechner wrote satirical essays ridiculing medicine and science under the pen name

This researcher systematically destroyed parts of the brain using extirpation

____ among other things, discovered that the brain had both white and gray matter, and that fiber connect the two halves of the brain

Perhaps the most valuable outcome of the study of the history of psychology is that one will learn the

Kenneth Clark was rejected by the graduate program in psychology at Cornell because the university

Who conducted a research program on racial identity and self-concept issues for Black children that was cited in the 1954 Supreme Court decision to end racial segregation in public schools

The school of thought that deals with how the conscious mind enables and facilitates one’s adaptation to one’s environment is the ____ school

In the first years of psychology’s emergence as a new discipline, this man determined its direction

A wave of employment possibilities in applied psychology in the first two decades of the 20th century was partly due to

Julian Rotter, a leading personality theorist was told that “____ simply could not get academic jobs, regardless of their credentials.”

The new discipline of psychology was the product of the union of

Wundt’s doctrine of apperception was also known as the

Ebbinghaus measured learning by

According to Wundt, psychology should be concerned with the study of

Other than Stumpf’s research, his greatest influence on psychology may have been

According to Wundt, there were two elementary forms of experience, namely

Ebbinghaus’ curve of forgetting shows that

What may be “the most brilliant single investigation in the history of experimental psychology”

Ebbinghaus is important for the history of psychology because he

“The examination of experience as it occurred without any attempt to reduce experience to elementary components” is a definition of

Wundt’s term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the

Külpe opposed Wundt by claiming that conscious thought processes can be carried out without the presence of sensations or feelings. Külpe’s view is known as

Act psychology, in contrast to Wundt’s approach, claimed that psychology should

Saturation effect

Can’t study immune responses in an analytical way

Are free will and determinism incompatible?

Institute for experimental psychology