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Putting animals in a puzzle box to study their intelligence was initially undertaken by

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Thordike

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A sensory receptors capacity to give only one quality of experience regardless of how it is stimulated is called

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The doctrine of specific nerve energies

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Eugenics refers to

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Selective breeding

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All of the following were characterized as Columbia functional it's except: 
Thorndike
Dewey 
Cattell
Woodworth
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Woodworth

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The pioneers if phrenology were

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Gall and spurzheim

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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

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Renaissance

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The distinction between sensory and motor nerves was made independently in the early 1800s by these two men

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Magendie and Bell

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The mind and body, though deprecate entities, are capable if interacting at the sure of the pineal gland is an idea of

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Descartes

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The four humors of blood were part of the teachings of

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Hippocrates

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A major implication of both the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions inhuman thinking was

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Placing of human existence within the natural order

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Post Renaissance Europe was ready for

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The acceptance of human reason as a source of knowledge

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In his studies of the sense of touch, Weber found

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A two point threshold

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The year 1879 is famous for being the year in which

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Wundt founded the first psychology lab

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This man is given credit for initiating human reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill in French insane asylums

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Pinel

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Who said, “psychology has a long past but only a short history”?

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Ebbinghaus

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The application of psychological information to legal situations is known as

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Forensic psychology

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“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”

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Sigmond Freud

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“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.

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John Watson

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Philosophers emphasizing the irrational and emotional aspects of human nature are called

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Romantics

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The reappearance of a conditioned response following a period of extinction is termed

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Spontaneous recovery

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According to William James consciousness was all of the following except

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Static or stationary

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According to Skinner the most important aspect of operant behavior is that it is

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Controlled by its consequences

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Camouflaged objects are difficult to detect because of

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Figure ground

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Ebbinghaus invented the nonsense syllable to

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Free his research material from the influence of prior learning

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The _____ model assumes that all mental illnesses are the result if malfunctioning of some part of the body

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Medical

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Wetheimers 1912 article describing ________ is usually taken as the founding of the school of Gestalt psychology.

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The phi phenomenon

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Watson concentrated on ____________ behavior, whereas Skinner concentrated on __________ behavior.

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Respondent / operant

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Who is not associated with treatments of the mentally ill?

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Kramer and Sprenger who published “Malleus Malefucarum”

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Studies history for the purpose of explaining how we got here today.

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Presentism

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Studies history for the sake of knowing history.

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Historicism

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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.

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Determinism

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The belief that all knowledge is experience.

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Empiricism

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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

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Paradigm

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Those who believe that ultimate reality consists of ideas or perceptions and it therefore not physical.

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Idealists

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Came up with the paradigm

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Kuhn

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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.

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Indeterminism

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Believe in only one reality

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Monists

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Materialists and idealists are examples of

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Monists

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The research activities performed by scientists as they explore the implications of a paradigm

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Normal science

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Persistent observations that cannot be explained by an existing paradigm

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Anomalies

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The type of determinism that stresses material causes of behavior

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Physical determinism

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According to Kuhn, what is the first stage in the development of a science?

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Pre-paradigmatic stage

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For a theory to be considered scientific it must specify the observations, if made, would refute the theory

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Principle of falsifiability

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The philosophical belief that knowledge can be attained only by engaging in some type of systematic mental activity

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Rationalism

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Said that scientific activity does not start with empirical observation but with a problem that guides the scientists empirical observations

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Popper

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Assume that human behavior is freely chosen and therefore not amenable to traditional scientific analysis

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Non determinists

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A primary element from which everything is made

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Physis

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