Psych Overview: U4 Ch. 8

Question 1

Established the first psychology laboratory in America and created an intellectual climate receptive to the new field

Answer 1

William James

Question 2

The title of William James’ most famous book

Answer 2

Principles of Psychology

Question 3

What is William James’ theory of emotions called

Answer 3

James-Lange Theory of emotion

Question 4

What did James believe about a true science and the concept of determinism?

Answer 4

Postulate complete determinism because under indeterminism, science simply stops.”

Question 5

First American to earn a PhD in experimental psychology under James. Found of the American Psychological Association and numerous journals. Popularized the term adolescence.

Answer 5

Hall

Question 6

One of the first women to overcome gender discrimination and establish a career in psychology. Developed paired-associates technique for studying memory as well as an influential system of self-psychology.

Answer 6

Calkins

Question 7

An American comparative psychologist who studied with James and went on to become the country’s best-known psychologist after James’s death. Trial-and-error, law of effect.

Answer 7

Thorndike

Question 8

Experimental psychologist who became America’s first important historian of psychology.

Answer 8

Boring

Question 9

What was the paired associates technique and who originated it?

Answer 9

A technique to study associative learning and memory. (Calkins)

Question 10

When certain stimulus-response sequences are followed by pleasure, they are strengthened, while responses followed by annoyance or pain tended to be stamped out.

Answer 10

The law of effect

Question 11

Focused attention on the utility and purpose of behavior, in contrast to Titchenerian structuralism, which sought only to define and describe the contents of conscious experience.

Answer 11

Functionalism

Question 12

What was the name of Jame’s general psychology?

Answer 12

Pragmatism