Final Flashcards
Putting animals in a puzzle box to study their intelligence was initially undertaken by
Thordike
A sensory receptors capacity to give only one quality of experience regardless of how it is stimulated is called
The doctrine of specific nerve energies
Eugenics refers to
Selective breeding
All of the following were characterized as Columbia functional it's except: Thorndike Dewey Cattell Woodworth
Woodworth
The pioneers if phrenology were
Gall and spurzheim
The period in intellectual history encompassing the decades from about 1409 to about 1600 during which faith gave way to a new spirit of rationalism is known as
Renaissance
The distinction between sensory and motor nerves was made independently in the early 1800s by these two men
Magendie and Bell
The mind and body, though deprecate entities, are capable if interacting at the sure of the pineal gland is an idea of
Descartes
The four humors of blood were part of the teachings of
Hippocrates
A major implication of both the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions inhuman thinking was
Placing of human existence within the natural order
Post Renaissance Europe was ready for
The acceptance of human reason as a source of knowledge
In his studies of the sense of touch, Weber found
A two point threshold
The year 1879 is famous for being the year in which
Wundt founded the first psychology lab
This man is given credit for initiating human reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill in French insane asylums
Pinel
Who said, “psychology has a long past but only a short history”?
Ebbinghaus
The application of psychological information to legal situations is known as
Forensic psychology
“In everyday life, unconscious ideas are struggling for expression. What might seem to be casual slips of the tongue are actually the reflection of real, though unacknowledged motives”
Sigmond Freud
“Give me a dozen healthy, well formed infants, and my own specified world to bring them up in, and ill guarantee to take anyone at random and train them to become any type of specialist I might select.
John Watson
Philosophers emphasizing the irrational and emotional aspects of human nature are called
Romantics
The reappearance of a conditioned response following a period of extinction is termed
Spontaneous recovery
According to William James consciousness was all of the following except
Static or stationary
According to Skinner the most important aspect of operant behavior is that it is
Controlled by its consequences
Camouflaged objects are difficult to detect because of
Figure ground
Ebbinghaus invented the nonsense syllable to
Free his research material from the influence of prior learning
The _____ model assumes that all mental illnesses are the result if malfunctioning of some part of the body
Medical
Wetheimers 1912 article describing ________ is usually taken as the founding of the school of Gestalt psychology.
The phi phenomenon
Watson concentrated on ____________ behavior, whereas Skinner concentrated on __________ behavior.
Respondent / operant
Who is not associated with treatments of the mentally ill?
Kramer and Sprenger who published “Malleus Malefucarum”
Studies history for the purpose of explaining how we got here today.
Presentism
Studies history for the sake of knowing history.
Historicism
The belief that everything that occurs does so because of known causes and that if these causes were known in advance, an event could be predicted/prevented with complete accuracy.
Determinism
The belief that all knowledge is experience.
Empiricism
A viewpoint shared by many scientists while exploring the subject matter of their science. Determines what constitutes legitimate problems and the mythology used in solving those problems
Paradigm
Those who believe that ultimate reality consists of ideas or perceptions and it therefore not physical.
Idealists
Came up with the paradigm
Kuhn
The contention that even if determinism is true, attempting to measure the causes of something influences those causes making it impossible to know them with certainty.
Indeterminism
Believe in only one reality
Monists
Materialists and idealists are examples of
Monists
The research activities performed by scientists as they explore the implications of a paradigm
Normal science
Persistent observations that cannot be explained by an existing paradigm
Anomalies
The type of determinism that stresses material causes of behavior
Physical determinism
According to Kuhn, what is the first stage in the development of a science?
Pre-paradigmatic stage
For a theory to be considered scientific it must specify the observations, if made, would refute the theory
Principle of falsifiability
The philosophical belief that knowledge can be attained only by engaging in some type of systematic mental activity
Rationalism
Said that scientific activity does not start with empirical observation but with a problem that guides the scientists empirical observations
Popper
Assume that human behavior is freely chosen and therefore not amenable to traditional scientific analysis
Non determinists
A primary element from which everything is made
Physis
