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why is wundt great

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  • first experimental psychology lab

- lab attracted students who went on to do great things

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wundt time

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1879

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tried to develop a way to measure __________

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introspection

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inner perception involves

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deliberately monitoring ones own mental processes

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The metronome experiment designed by wundt illustrates that

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it is difficult to hear beats as the same tone and as such conclude our experience is not just a sum of individual experiences but a creative synthesisconsciousness is rhythmically disposed.

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way we organize and makes sense of our experience is

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apperception

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a key statistical phenomenon that can fuel incorrect assumptions

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regression towards the mean

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______ proposed social darwinism as a means towards equilibration/perfect social harmony. Coined what term

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Spencer: Survival of the Fittest

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Spencer time

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1820-1903

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Galton used what theory to justify his call for eugenics

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Theory of Evolution

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Galton was against feminism and _____ _____ because..

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feminism and birth control because dinner women would be snuffing out the heredity of their superior traits etc thus setting society backwards

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G saw intelligence as

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innate

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Galton said future well being would begin to depend on __________ skill, intelligence and _________________- not___________

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mechanical skill, intelligence and morality -not fertility

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Galtons contributions to statistics

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Normal distribution and regression towards the mean

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Regression towards the mean occurs out of mathematical necessity whenever…

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two variables are not perfectly correlated

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Normal distribution

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The way events are often distributed throughout the world a

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Galton contributions:
Stats; reg to mean and norm diet
-epigenetics because racist
-…

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Autobiographical memories and ways they are associated to other things. Through introspection realized something was happening beneath the conscious level and suggested it could have answers to other unexplainable phenomenon

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