In North American // Chap 6 (lec5) Flashcards
What influences lead to faculty psychology becoming less popular
- German psychology
- British biology
- American higher education
Faculty Psych approach ?
- have different kinds of faculty (ie. intellectual and active)
- philosophical perceptive
what were some challenges women dealt with
- domestic expectations
- thoughts education + cognitive load might damage their reproductive organs
- they were inheritently intellectually inferior
Spiritualism
-consciousness continued after death, mediums could allow for communication between the living and dead
What did evolutionary theory influence?
- Children’s minds “less evolved,” something that would develop
- Recapitulation Theory:
What is Recapitulation Theory:
development of organisms reflects the evolution of a species
what occurred at the 1909 Clark Conference
- Freud gave five talks
- Carl Jung also lectured
- Freud’s only trip to America
paired-associate learning
-Studied effects of frequency, recency, vividness, and primacy and each effect’s impact on improving memory (frequency most important)
- Made practical suggests about the use of these results
- the original discoverer of memory effects later rediscovered in cognitive psychology
what is self-psychology?
-Theoretical work
-The self a necessary element of
consciousness
-a bridge between structuralism and functionalism
Pragmatism:
-practicality, usefulness, function