EXAM #2 Flashcards
Titchener built…
a system of structuralism
structuralism is…
analyzing conscious experience into its component parts and determine its structure
titchener banned…
women from meetings of the experimentalists
Titchener encouraged…
and supported women in psychology
washburn was the…
first woman to earn a doc degree in psych
kulpe labe
systematic experimental introspection
titchener warned against…
stimulus error
one of titcheners problems with psych was…
to reduce conscious process to their simplest componets
sensations
sounds sights smells evoked by psychical objects
images
reflect on experiences not present
affective states
element of emotion: love, hate, and saddness
introspections was really…
retrospection; thinking about thinking
titchener’s conception of psych was..
too narow
structuralism served as…
a strong established orthodox to rebel against
if part of mental functioning is unconscious…
it cannot be reported
functionalism is concerned with…
how the mind functions and how it adapts an organism to its environment
the zeitgeist was…
transformed by the industrial revolution
Lamarck
formulated a behavioral theory of evolution (natural selection)
Functionalism was the first…
uniquely American school
Galton
found the science of eugenics
eugenics
argued that humans could be improved by artificial selection
Quetelet
the first person to use the normal curve with bio and social data
Galton says that any human characteristic could be described by two numbers
the mean and standard deviation
Cattell coins the term…
mental tests
