Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Empiricism
The idea that all knowledge comes from experience.
What is Psychophysics
methods for measuring the relationship between physical stimuli and human perception.
What is Introspection
A method of focusing internal processes
who and when was Society of experimental Psychologists established
Established in 1904 by Titchener as he felt the APA didn’t adequatley represent the interests of experimental psychologists.
what was Wilhelm Wundt credited for
credited for the formal development of modern psychology and helped establish the field of experimental psychology.
who are Structuralists
interested in conscious elements of the mind, brought about by Edward Bradford Titchener.
who was Margaret Floy Washburn
the first woman in America to earn an PH. D in psychology in 1894
what is Functionalism
Focused on the utility of consciousness
what claim did William James make about consciousness in the book Principles of Psychology
Consciousness can not be reduced to its component parts
who was Francis Cecil Sumner
First African American in America to earn a PH. D in psychology in 1920
James, Cattell and Hall were apart of a group that imbraced ______ and was influenced by evolutionary theory
Functionalism
what is Gestalt psychology
An attempt to study the unity of experience, began by Max Wertheimer
what is cognitive psychology
the study of mental processes
Behaviorism considers ______ to be the proper subject matter of psychology
Observable behavior
who is Alfred Binet
A French psychologist who invented intelligence tests
who is Lightner Witmer
Founder of both clinical and school psychology.
By what year was there more than 40 experimental psychology laboratories in the US and Canada
1900
Who was Evelyn Hooker
A psychologist whose research influenced the decision to remove hemosexuality from diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders in 1973
Father of immunology
Dr. Edward Jenner (first to conceive and test vaccines)
What are some highlights for ethics
Informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, benefits and deception
Operational definitions
How researchers specifically measure a concept (must be clearly stated before beginning research)
What is a Confound
Factors that undermine the ability to draw causal inferences from an experiment
What are some confounds
Placebo effect, participant demand, experimenter expectations
How to avoid confounds
The double blind procedure