History And Systems Flashcards

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Willam Wundt

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Leipzig Germany, 1879

Conducted first psychology experiments in first psych laboratory

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History of everything

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Not everything was connected once upon a time, people lived in harmony separately

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Epoch

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A time period

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Zeitgeist vs great person approach

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Zeitgeist: “spirit of the times” the general intellectual, moral, & culture climate of the times

Great person approach: emphasizing the work of individuals of the time; The approach to history that concentrates on the most prominent contributors to the topic or field under consideration.

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E.G Boring

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Became on of the first historians of psychology; student of Wundt

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Eclectic

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Jack of all trades, master of none

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Quote from bottom of page 4

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“We never seem to solve our problems or exhaust our concepts; we only grow tired of them. …”

Meaning we exhaust concepts in psychology

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Vogue

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In and out of style/fashion

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Copernicus

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Said sun was in the center of the solar system

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Quote on page 5

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“The history of science is full of theories which were pronounced dead, then res- urrected, then pronounced dead again only to celebrate another triumphant comeback. It makes sense to preserve faulty points of view for possible future use.The history of ideas, methods, and prejudices is an important part of the ongoing practice of science and this practice can change direction in surpris- ing ways.”

Meaning 90% of their references presence bias

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Correlation

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a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

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Truncated range

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A truncated distribution has its domain (the x-values) restricted to a certain range of values. For example, you might restrict your x-values to between 0 and 100, written in math terminology as {0 > x > 100}

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correlation does not equal causation

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just because two things correlate does not necessarily mean that one causes the other.

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scatter plots

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A scatter plot (aka scatter chart, scatter graph) uses dots to represent values for two different numeric variables

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Mutually exclusive

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Mutually exclusive: don’t overlap of the lines

Not mutually exclusive = overlap (fulfills both null and hypothesis BAD)

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Exhaustive

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Exhaustive: together they use up all the possibilities (if to gather the two pictures make a complete number line

Not exhaustive= they do not overlap to make a complete number line

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Null

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Ho hypothesis: no change

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Alternative

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H1 something changed

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One tailed

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A one-tailed test is a statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is one-sided so that it is either greater than or less than a certain value, but not both

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Two tailed

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In statistics, a two-tailed test is a method in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values; looking for change

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Paradigm

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widely accepted viewpoint

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Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996)

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Believed that the activities of members of a scientific community are governed by a shared set of beliefs called a paradigm.This paradigmatic, or normal, science continues until an existing paradigm
is displaced by another paradigm

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Hawthorne effect

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When people act differently when they know they are being watched

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Uncertainty principle

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The contention that even though determinism is true, attempting to measure the causes of something influences those causes, making it impossible to know them with certainty

Coined by Heisenberg

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Is psychology science ?
It is not a single disciple. It’s a collection of studies where some may qualify as a science but most do not
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Presentist bias By Loftus
Ones with a bias towards present day point of view Ex: viewing a traditional social structure as irrational without considering that it may have been an efficient system that allowed a community to survive the harsh realities of history.
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Dualism
The view that the mind and body both exist as separate entities
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Interactionism
the mind influences the body, and the body influences the mind Coined by Descartes
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Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore i am, he could not doubt that he himself existed, as he was the one doing the doubting in the first place.
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Cartesian product
defined on an ordered set of sets. It is the set of all possible ordered combinations consisting of one member from each of those sets.
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Penial gland
seat of the soul
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Freud, psychogenic
The emotions that come with recovering a memory
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Emergentism
claims that mental states emerge from physical brain states Roger Sperry, split brain
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Reification
tendency to believe that if something has a name it also has an independent existence, John Stuart Mill
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Nature vs Nurture
nativist emphasizes the role of inheritance (nature) in his or her explanation of the origins of various human attributes, whereas the empiricist emphasizes the role of experience (nurture).
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Epistemology
study of knowledge
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Anthropomorphism
Projecting human traits on non-humans/animals Ex: the dog is laughing
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Dionysus, Roman name Bacchus
The god of wine and orgy
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Transmigration-of the soul
Recreation, heeps on coming back
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Thales
First philosopher, brought geometry from Egypt and Babylonia to Greece
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Anaximander and first map
Map of Greek island, coast of Greece
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Heraclitus
Responsible for atomic theory (only of half the distance but never touch) “Cannot step in the same river twice”
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Pythagoras
Coined the term philosophy | Responsible for Pythagorean theorem
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Empedocles
Earth, fire, air, water (the elements)
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Democritus
Responsible for what is known as the five senses (credited to Aristotle) Coined the term atom
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Caduceus
Medical symbol
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Hippocrates
Most famous doctor from antiquity
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What is the Hippocratic oath?
Do not harm
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What are the 4 humors?
1) leave alone, sometimes people get better on their own 2) fasting is the greatest remedy 3) our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food 4) walking is a man’s best medicine
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Galen
2nd most famous doctor from antiquity 130-200 AD Developed humeral theory of personality
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What word was humors replaced with?
Neurotransmitters
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Phlegmatic
luggish and emotional – when you have a cold and feel sluggish Associated with Galen
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Sophistry
“nothing is inherently right or wrong but believing makes it so” Type of argument style
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What are two examples of Sophistry?
Rhetoric – clever misleading argument Epistemological question – it is not what the universe is made of but what do humans know and how can they know it
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Caduceus
Medical symbol