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Lecture 3: Predecessors Of Psychology Flashcards

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Individualization

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Trend in a society towards loser social relations and a greater focus by individuals on themselves than on the groups they belong to

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What are 4 factors that contributed to individualization

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  1. Increased complexity of society
  2. Increased control by the state
  3. Individuality promoted by Christianity
  4. Mirrors, books and letters (new inventions)
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Epistemology

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Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge

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Idealism

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View within philosophy that human knowledge is a construction of the mind and does not necessarily correspond to an outside world; the truth of knowledge depends on the coherence with the rest of the knowledge in the social group

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Realism

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View within philosophy that human knowledge tries to reveal real properties of the outside world; the truth of knowledge is determined by the correspondence of the knowledge with the real world

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Introspection

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Research method in psychology consisting of a person looking inward and reporting what he/she is experiencing; usually done under controlled circumstances

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Physiognomy

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Belief that the personality of an individual can be deduced from their appearance, in particular from the shape of the head and the face

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Psychophysics

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Part of psychological research dealing with the relationship between physical stimuli and the corresponding sensation

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Mental chronometry

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Using reaction times to measure the time needed for various mental tasks; on the basis of a comparison of different tasks, models of the mental processes involved in the tasks are postulated

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Natural selection

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Process in Darwin’s evolutionary theory by which the environment results in the continuation and multiplication of organisms with certain genetic features and hinder the reproduction of organisms with other genetic features; the first type of features are called favorable and the second type unfavorable

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survival of the fittest

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Term introduced by Herbert Spencer to describe the outcome of natural selection; only organisms that fit within the environment and can produce viable offspring survive

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The Origin of Species

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Book by Charles Darwin (1859) in which he presented the evolutionary theory

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What were the two most important things related do Descartes

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He doubted everything and the mind exists separate from the body = dualism

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From whom is the quote; “I think, therefore I am”

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Descartes

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Descartes was a … (rationalist/empiricist)

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Rationalist

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What is dualism

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The mind is a separate substance (immaterial) from the body (material), it controls the body and the body is just a machine

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What is reductionism

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Reducing mental states to simple brain cells

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Who came up with the concept of tabula rasa

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John Locke

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John Locke was an … (rationalist/empiricist)

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Empiricist

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Who can be seen as the father of empiricism

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John Locke

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George Berkeley was an … (rationalist/empiricist)

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Empiricist

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What was an additional concept that Berkeley came up with

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Idealism

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What is the most important thing connected to David Hume

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Causality and the induction problem

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What is the induction problem

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Induction is the generalization of observed cases to all cases, however, induction is a logically invalid form of reasoning; the conclusion does not follow from the premises

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What are the 3 criteria of Hume’s analysis of causality

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  1. Proximity of cause and effect; near in time and space
  2. Cause precedes effect
  3. Necessary connection between cause and effect —> Hume argued that you cannot be sure about this because you cannot observe every possible scenario
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What was Thomas Reid’s general idea

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To bring back common sense from idealism

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Who defined empirical psychology and what was it built on

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Wolff; it’s built on introspection and should aim for mathematical demonstrations (similar to newton) for full understanding (= psychometria)

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Kant was a … (rationalist/empiricist)

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He was actually a mix of both

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What was Kant’s mission and how did he argue for that

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He wanted to save Newton from Hume’s induction problem; solution - humans themselves bring concepts such as space, time and causality with them as a priori categories with which they structure perception; we need these categories to make sense of the world, its not a bad thing that we have them

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What is the problem of interaction

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How does an immaterial substance (mind) interact with a material one (brain) —> related to mind-body problem (Descartes)

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What did George Berkeley believe when it comes to perceptions

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Perceptions do not necessarily correspond to reality and therefore they must come from somewhere —> they come from god, he put them in our mind

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Who said “to be is to be perceived”

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Berkeley

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4 important books were discussed in this chapter, who wrote them and what were they about

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  • Kant; anthropology as collection of observed facts about humans
  • Herbart; attempt to make psych scientific by introducing mathematical laws
  • Upham; claim that intellectual mental philosophy is a science worthy of study
  • Bain; introduction of the nervous system and other physiological info in a psych textbook
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What did
- Hooke
- Mayer
- Weber
- Fechner
discover

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  • level of detail humans can discern (perception)
  • influence of illumination in this above capacity
  • detection of just noticeable differences between stimuli
  • formulation of a psychophysical theory based on the above
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Which two people were important for research on time needed to perform tasks and the speed of signal transmission in the nervous system

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Von Helmholtz and Donders

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Why is the idea of dualism rejected by modern physics

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Because it violates the Law of Conservation of Energy; a mind that controls the brain must set something in motion but the mind itself is immaterial and does not fall under the laws of physics, this would therefore mean that the mind adds energy out of nothing

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What are impressions according to Hume

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They are “stamps” of experiences that are saved in the mind, if these impressions occur together then we see them as linked and assume there is a causal connection

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