Chapter 4

Question 1

British Imperialists during which centruy

Answer 1

16th

Question 2

BI focused on ______ and evidence and less on __________ of __________

Answer 2

senses, reasoning and rationalism

Question 3

BI: Scientific method is limited by

Answer 3

what we can perceive

Question 4

Fechners Psychophysics hypothesized

Answer 4

a mathematically precise relation between stimulus values and sensation that could be tested by means of experimental data

Question 5

Herbart is regarded as the first

Answer 5

mathmatic psychologist

Question 6

Brocas aphasi

Answer 6

can understand but not PRODUCE speech

Question 7

Wernickes

Answer 7

cannot understand but can speak- becomes a jumbled mess though

Question 8

who developed the Thrichromactic theory of colour perception

Answer 8

Hemholtz and Young

Question 9

sensation is difference from perception ins that

Answer 9

sensation stimulates nerves etc, and perception follows after brain has organized sensations into something that we now perceive. Perception is the organization and interpretation of sensation

Question 10

Saw emotions as more than bodily agitations. Took notice of the __________ and said they were another _____ _______

Answer 10

Wolstencraft, context of emotions and said they were another psychologicalprocess

Question 11

Galtons law states_______ parents contribute about _____ of their their heritage to offspring and so on to grandchildren (1/4) etc

Answer 11

2, 1/2

Question 12

____ study of inherited intelligence and racial correlations spurred the study of _____- human breeding

Answer 12

Galton’s, eugenics

Question 13

Kant said our concept is shaped my our… not…

Answer 13

inner us, outer world

Question 14

as in life does not revolve around us- we are not the center

Answer 14

copernican revolution

Question 15

h——said ideas may be opposed to one another and therefor reduce—–

Answer 15

herbart, intensity

Question 16

apperception refersto

Answer 16

when the mind becomes fully aware of ideas

Question 17

believed the relationship between the brain and experience and between experience and events in the outside world could be explained by math

Answer 17

Fechner

Question 18

Compared application of math to psychology like that of a flag in the wind: meaning

Answer 18

Fechner: there is some degree of freedom but mathematical structure provides the limits.

Question 19

Three parts of phrenology

Answer 19

1) brain is sole organ of the mind
2) character and traits are innately determined
3) Where there is variation in function (traits in indic) there must be variation in controlling structures

Question 20

Study of brain damaged indic made contributions to understanding of

Answer 20

Localization of function

Question 21

Webers Law

Answer 21

The degree or amount a stimulus must change to be perceived by the a erson.