Chapter 6

Question 1

faculty psychology

Answer 1

emphasized real exisentance of mind, whuch held a number of innate faculties such as intelligence and judgment

Question 2

periodic function

Answer 2

womens alleged incapacity during the time of mensturation

Question 3

variability hypothesis

Answer 3

the idea that men had more variability in most traits compared to women and therfore was advantaged in evolutionary terms

Question 4

introspection

Answer 4

careful self observation

Question 5

brass instrument

Answer 5

term used sarcastically to describe german reaction time and psychphysics research, which realied on apparatus made of brass

Question 6

conciousness

Answer 6

sense of awareness

Question 7

james-lange theory of emotion

Answer 7

emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events.

Question 8

spiritualism

Answer 8

belief in the arterlife and the ability to communicate with the dead

Question 9

genetic psychology

Answer 9

emphasizes the evolution and development of the mind (developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, comparative psychology)

Question 10

self psychology

Answer 10

all consciousness is ulitmately self-consciousness

Question 11

paried associate learning

Answer 11

a pair of stimuli are presented and then one stimuli is presented and the associated pair must be recalled

Question 12

pragmatism

Answer 12

juded the value of ideas by their usefullness in helping someone adabt to the enviorment