ch 4 Flashcards
mastery values
the idea that educated people using rational, knowledge and technology should rule others and nature
idealism
generally shared religious views of the soul and mental life
romanticism
didn’t deny reason but it downplayed rationalism. viewpoint of society and human behavior based on an idealistic enhancement w/ individuality, spontaneity, and passion
spiritualism
a belief that the living could correspond with the deceased through special channels of communication
clairvoyance
he supposed extrasensory power of an individual, that is, the power to see or feel objects or events that could not be perceived by the senses or measured objectively
phrenology
A theory connecting the size and shape of the brain with human behavior and the individual’s personality.
vitalism
view that life processes arise from or contain a nonmaterial vital principle and cant be explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena
types of early measurements in psych
personal equation and psychophysics
personal equation
The existence of remarkably consistent differences in measurement between any two observers had been established in several experiments
reaction time
interval between the presentation of the stimulus and the response to it
psychophysics
an exact science of the functional relations of dependency between body and mind
who was One of the first to conduct experimental studies of memory and learning
Herman Ebbinghaus
nonsense syllables
designed by ebbinghaus, they are words containing 2 constants and 1 vowel that would have no apparent meaning
learning to criterion
method introduced by ebbinghuas where the subject repeated the material as many times as was necessary to reach a certain level of accuracy
what were wundt’s 4 views
- body + mind interaction
- Concept of Psychological Compounding
- Method of experimental introspection
- Higher mental processes
