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Important People - Midterm Exam Flashcards

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Socrates & Plato

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Mind separable from body; mind is innate.

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Aristotle

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Thought things learned through observation; mind is not innate.

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Francis Bacon

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Empiricism; scientific method; mind is innate.

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Charles Darwin

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Evolution.

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Rene Descartes

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“Animal spirits.”

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John Locke

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“Tabula rasa.”

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Created first ever psychology lab; structuralism.

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G. Stanley Hall

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Functionalism.

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Edward Bradford Titchener

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Structuralism.

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William James

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Functionalism; perception to function in environment.

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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First female president of the APA; was not able to get her degree from Harvard University.

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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First woman ever to get a psychology degree.

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Wilder Penfield

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Neurosurgeon; mapped out the motor cortex.

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Paul Broca

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Found Broca’s Area - part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles, language, and speech.

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Carl Wernicke

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Found Wernicke’s Area - left area of temporal lobe involved in language and understanding.

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Roger Sperry

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Studied split brain patients; showed that left/right hemispheres have different functions.

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Michael Gazzaniga

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Helped with the understanding of lateralization; studied split brain patients - show how the two hemispheres of the brain work together.

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Gustav Fechner

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German psychologist; studied our awareness of faint stimuli and labeled them absolute thresholds.

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Ernst Weber

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Best known for weber’s law; stimulus magnitude comparison.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Studied with dogs; conducted classical conditioning experiments.

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John B. Watson & Rosalie Rayner

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Little albert’s experiments on fear conditioning.

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Edward Thorndike

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Law of effect on cats in “puzzle boxes;” behaviorism.

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B. F. Skinner

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Operant conditioning experiments, “skinner’s box;” behaviorism.

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John Garcia & Koelling

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Studied taste aversion in rats; knowledge that sickness and taste preferences can be conditioned.

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Martin Seligman

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Conducted experiments with dogs, “learned helplessness.”

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Atkinson & Shiffrin

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Atkinson-shiffrin model: three stages of memory (sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory).

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Memorized nonsense syllables; “forgetting curve;” “retention curve.”

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Elizabeth Loftus

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“Lost in the Mall” experiment; eye-witness testimony; implementing false memories.

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Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky

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Conducted research to discover factors that influence human judgment/decision making; representative and availability heuristics.

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Robert Sternberg

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Triarchic Intelligence theory; believed there were three types of intelligences: analytical, creative, and practical.

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Noam Chomsky

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Concept of universal grammar, which states that language is innate (natural), instead of learned.

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Charles Spearman

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General intelligence concept (g).

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L.L. Thurstone

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Proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities.

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Howard Gardner

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“Multiple intelligences.”

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Francis Galton

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Believed intelligence to be hereditary influences on a person’s abilities, character, and behavior; found nature vs. nurture.

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Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon

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Created Modern Intelligence Testing - first intelligence test made for children in France.

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Lewis Terman

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Incorporated IQ in the Stanford-Binet test; army’s use of intelligence testing during WWI; measured intelligence by dividing mental age by chronological age.

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David Wechsler

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Developed individual test of intelligence (WAIS & WISC).

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James-Lange

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First: physical sensations, Second: thinking, acting, and feeling.

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Cannon-Bard

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Physical & emotion interacts simultaneously.

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Schachter & Singer

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Two-Factor theory; emotion is formed from physiological arousal and a cognitive label.

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Richard Lazarus

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Theory of appraisal - a thought must come before any emotion or physiological arousal.

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Zajonc & leDoux

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Thought that some emotions, particularly those needed for our immediate survival (e.g., anger or rage), were quickly activated through a fast pathway, while other emotions (e.g., love) went through a slow pathway.

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Paul Ekman

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Interested in universality of facial expressions.

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Hans Selye

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Stress theorist, created the model of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).

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Friedman & Rosenman

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Type A personality; experiment on coronary heart disease with angry, competitive individuals and easygoing, relaxed individuals.

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Kurt Lewin

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Studied effects of leadership and gestalt principles on human behavior.

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