periods Flashcards
often attributed for the initial use of the term “psychology” in his writing
“yucologia hoc est de hominis perfectiona, anima, ortu”
Rudolf Gockel
first proposed that psychology should separate from philosophy and that psychology should be treated as natural science (naturalism)
Francis Bacon
discomforts/pains must be overcome human beings are physicsl objects and sophisticated machines whose functions and activities can be described and explained in purely mechanistic terms
Thomas Hobbes
The idea of an infividual becomes true only to himself because this is the level of knowledge that he believes in
George Berkeley (1709)
Has theory of reality
Christian Von Wolff
Two parts of Reality
Ontology - treats possible things
Metaphysics - treats actual things
utilized the method of animal magnetism in curing hysteria, which evolved yo hypnosis
Mesmer (1774
theory invented by German doctor Franz Mesmer. It posits the existence of an invisible natural force. He claimed that the force could have physical effects including healing. Where the word “mesmerized” came from
Animal Magnetism
Stated that the mind is not blank, but rather the mind is capable of acquiring knowledge through sensory experiences
Immanuel Kant (1782)
He was responsible for making psychology a science
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Pioneered areas about the ideas that is necessary to be stimulated in order yo be able to gain sensation
Ernst Weber (1817)
He made the theory of color vision
Hermann von Helmholtz
He introduced the theory of eveolution and the concept of natural selection
Charles Darwin (1859)
He had an insights that the law of the connection between the mind and the body can be found in a statement of quantitative relation between mental sensation and material stimulus
Gustav Fechner (1860)
He observed that persons who suffered from damage to aspecific area of the brain’s left hemisphere may lose their ability to speak fluently
Paul Broca (1861)
Father of Behavioral Genetics
Francis Galton
is a field of scientific research that uses genetic methods to investigate the nature and origins of individual differences in behavior
Behavioral Genetics
First to formally describe bipolar behavior
Emil Kraeplin
He is the Father of Modern Psychiatry
Emil Kraeplin
A neo-freudian and established analytic psychology
Carl Jung
Made a theory that human beings have yhe basic need for love and security
Karen Horney
First sustematic psychometrician and the Father of Classical Test Theory
Charles Spearman
They developed the first Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
He pioneered the statisticsl technique called factor anakysis
Charles Spearman