ch. 3-4 Flashcards
Wilhelm wundt
father of experimental psych
who published principles of physiology psychology (1874)
Wilhelm wundt
Principles of physiology psychology
how the scientific methods of physiology could be applied to the study of conciousness
What was significant in 1879
in 1879 the first psychology lab at university of leipzig
Leipzig University
is considered the birth of science and psychology
Who established the first experimental psychology journal: philosophical studies (1881)
Wilhelm Wundt
What topics did wundt study with his students?
His students could all study multiple topics, color vision and tone perception
Brass Instrument Psychology
was used when stimuli were presented and responses were recorded by mechanical means
What mechanical means are used in brass instrument psychology?
Tachistoscope, rotating memory drum and gravity chronometer
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Experimental self observation
trained observers present stimulus, observers self report what experienced , over trials with changing stimuli
Reaction time method
measure the speed of certain mental events by measuring reaction time and substracting out the time for sensory and motor components
Voïkerpsychologie (1900)
10 volume text by wundt
What was Voïkerpsychologie about?
understanding of humanity was obtained by studying how people interact w/ each other in social, cultural, historical contexts
What research was included in Voïkerpsychologie?
Language, mythology, customs
Who were wundts students
James Cattell, Hugo Munsterberg
James M Cattell (1860-1944)
known for bringing experimental methods from germany to u.s
who pionerred the field of mental testing?
James Cattell
Who returned to the U.S and estsblished a psychology lab at columbia university?
James Cattell
Who coined the term “mental test”
James Cattell
Who was the editor of science
James Cattell, he added psychology when publishing a journal for science
Who founded the psychological review journal?
James Cattell
Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)
Student of james cattell, founded the first psychological clinic in the world at the university of pennsylvania (1896)
What did the first psychological clinic consist of?
working with learning disabilities, speech, behavioral issues
Who is the founder of clinical psych and school psych
Lightner Witmer
Who started a journal devoted to clinical work?
Lightner Witmer, The psychological clinic (1907)
Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916)
wundt student, attended harvard to help cattell
Who was a pioneer in applied psychology?
Hugo Munsterberg
who was involed in forensic psych and industrial and organizational psych
hugo munsterberg
Forensic psych (munsterberg)
wrote on the witness stand, fallibility of memory, reliability of witnessed and methods of jury persuaion
Who invented an early polygraph device?
Hugo Munsterberg
Industrial and Organizational Psych (hugo munsterberg)
wrote psychology and industrial efficiency, believed the more efficient you were the better the job would be
Who was branded a spy for Germany in WW1 and believed Germany was better than U.S
Hugo Munsterberg
Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)
mr. structuralist
wrote the experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice: 4 volumes
What are the four volumes in a manual of laboratory practice?
2 were on quantitative research, the other 2 were on qualitative research
Who was the chair of the society of experiemental psychologists?
Edward Titchener
What club was Titchener in that did not allow women to join?
The experimentalists
Who was the founder of school of structuralism
Titchiner
Structuralism
Discovering the structure of the adult, normally functioning, human mind, described mental experiences by breaking down consciousness into basic components
Universal Elements
sensations, images and affections
Systematic Introspection
reporting sensory experiences in controlled experimental conditions
Stimulus Error
is the error of describing the object of perception instead of the conscious experience of that object
Differences between wundt and titchiner
Wundt trued to explain conscious experience
Titchiner wanted to describe elements of consciousness
Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) titchiner student
First woman PhD in psychology in U.S
Who was a pioneer in animal research?
Margaret Washburn
Who wrote the book on comparitive psychology, animal minds (1908)
Margaret Washburn
Who was the second APA president in 1921
Margaret Washburn
Who used introspection by analogy as research method
Margaret Washburn
Edwin boring (1886-1968)
Noted historian of psychology, wrote history of experimental psychology
Who was very devoted to titchiner
Edwin boring was his student and very devoted
June Etta Downey (1875-1932)
First woman chair of a psychology department (1915)
What was June Downeys research on?
Relationship between handwriting and personality
Functionalism
understanding how consciousness/ mental processes enabled the organism to interact with and adapt to its enviornment and survive
William James (1842-1910)
Harvard philosophy; self taught himself psychology,
Who wrote a two volume book on principle of psychology 1890?
William James
What were william james interests?
concept of stream of consciousness, selective attention is an important aspect of consciousness
James-Lange theory (william james)
the idea that emotional experience is an interpretation of bodily arousal within a given situation
Mary Calkins (1863-1930)
First female president of the APA, she never recieved her PhD from harvard
Who established the first psychology lab at wellesley college by a woman?
Mary Calkins
Who invented the paired-associates task?
Mary Calkins
self-psychology
proper subject of psychology is study of our conscious selves
Robert Yerkes (1876-1956)
A pioneer in the fields of comparitive psychology and intelligence testing
Who did robert yerkes study?
He studied gorillas social behavior and nervous system of jelly fish
Who guided the development of Army Alpha and Army Beta tests in WW1?
Robert Yerkes
How was the Army Alpha and Beta tests administered?
They are group adminstered to assign military rank to men based on test results
What was the lowest score on Army Alpha and Beta Tests
E is lowest, A/B are high scores
G stanley hall (1844-1924)
pioneered developmental psychology, especially adolescence
Who was the father of Adolescence Psychology
G. Stanley Hall
Who developed child study movement reform
G. Stanley Hall
Child study movement reform
engaged in theory free data collection survey studies, not hypothesis testing with experiments
Lewis Terman (1877-1956)
Popularized the use of intelligence tests by revising the standford-binet
Who performed landmark longitudinal studies on gifted children 1921?
Lewis Terman, children were called termites
What was termites average IQ?
150
Yujiro Motora (1858-1912)
First Japanese to earn his PhD at an American University
Who returned to japan and established japans first psychology lab?
Yujiro Motora
What was Yujiro Motora interested in?
the process of attention, started a clinic in tokyo for underachieving children
Who nurtured many graduate students in Japan?
Yujiro Motora formed the first generation of experimental psychologists in Japan
Francis Cecil Sumner (1895-1954)
first african american man to earn a PhD in psychology (1920)
Who was known as the father of black psychology and studied race psychology
Francis Sumner
James Rowland Angell (1869-1949)
John Dewey
were founders of school of functionalism
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Helen Thompson Wolley (1874-1947)
early american psychologist who made contributions to psychology of women and children
Who published the first systematic study of gender differences?
Helen Woolley
The mental traits of sex by woolley
25 male/ 25 female (giving them tests on motor capability) no sex differences were found
Who led changes in laws on child labor?
Helen Woolley
Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)
pionerred learning theory and educational psychology
What did thorndike study?
Puzzle box and the law of effect
Robert Woodworth (1869-1962)
proposed dynamic psychology which emphasized the role of motivation in behavior
Who wrote 2 tests who introduced IV and Dv along with correlations and experiments
Robert Woodworth
Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939)
worked with gifted children, known for studies on the psychology of women and giftrf children
Who described the myths associated with menstruation cycles?
Leta Hollingworth
Who coined the term “gifted”
Leta Hollingworth
Inez Prosser (1897-1934)
first african-american woman to earn a doctorate in psychology (1933)
Who found that when african americans are with other african americans have fewer psychological emotional issues
Inez Prosser
Ruth Howard (1900-1997)
The second african-american woman to recieve a PhD in psychology (1934)
who studied nature and nurture on triplets?
Ruth Howard
