History of Psychology Flashcards
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Sigmund Freud
Psychodynamic
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Binet
Practical Intelligence Test
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Hugo Munsterberg
Forensic and Industrial Psychology
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Walter Dill Scott
Personnel Selection
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Lightner Witmer
Considered First Clinical Psychologist
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What is the scientist-practitioner model?
Clinical psychologists need to have the same training research as psychologists, plus training in various clinical skills.
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Frederic Bartlett
Thinking
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What cognitive topics were being explored?
Thinking, problem solving, and memory.
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Mary Calkins
1st femal President of the American Psychological Association, and was refused a psychology degree by Harvard.
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What was the movement of functionalism?
The question of “what is consiousness good for?”
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What is fucntionalism?
The adaptive value and purpose of mental processes and behaviours.
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William James (functionalism)
Textbook of psychology that explored the stream of consiousness.
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G. Stanley Hall (functionalism)
Developmental psychology and an institution builder (created America’s first psychology laboratory).
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James McKeen Cattell (funtionalism)
Study of individual differences, measuring intelliegence.
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What is Gestalt Psychology?
- the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- investigated learning, tinking, and social psychology
