Psychology Simply DK Flashcards
Who wrote The Passions of the Soul in 1649 claiming that body and soul are separate?
Rene Descartes
Who investigated hypnosis in his book On the Cause of Lucid Sleep in 1819? Born in 1756 Goa.
Abbe Faria
Which philosopher wrote The Sickness Unto Death in 1849 marking the beginning of existentialism?
Soren Kierkegaard
Whose research in 1869 suggested nurture is more important than nature in Hereditary Genius?
Francis Galton
Who produced Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System in 1877? Born Paris 1825, known as “the founder of modern neurology”, and his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms. Studies between 1868 and 1881 were a landmark in the understanding of Parkinson’s disease, He also led the disease formerly named paralysis agitans (shaking palsy) to be renamed after James Parkinson. He named Tourettes after his student.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Which German founded the first laboratory of experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany in 1879? Was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist, He is widely regarded as the “father of experimental psychology”.
Wilhelm Wundt
German pyschologist born 1856, published the Textbook of Psychiatry in 1883? Announced that he had found a new way of looking at mental illness, referring to the traditional view as “symptomatic” and to his view as “clinical”. Split pyschosis into Manic Depression and Dementia Praecox. Co-discover of Alzheimers.
Emil Kraepelin
Female American pyschologist (1918-2008) who proposed her namesake stages of ego development? Conceptualize a theory based on Erik Erikson’s psychosocial model and the works of Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949) in which “the ego was theorized to mature and evolve through stages across the lifespan as a result of a dynamic interaction between the inner self and the outer environment”.
Jane Loevinger
Which American child psychoanalyst published the 1950 book Childhood and Society with his thoughts on the Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development? Came up it with wife Joan.
Erik Erikson
French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked him to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work. In 1895, opened the first lab of psychodiagnosis.
Alfred Binet
Born NYC 1842, Among his most influential books are The Principles of Psychology, a groundbreaking text in the field of psychology; Essays in Radical Empiricism, an important text in philosophy; and The Varieties of Religious Experience, an investigation of different forms of religious experience, including theories on mind-cure.
William James
Born 1916 Berlin, German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. Research purported to show that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease. Bit racist in terms of intelligence vs race.
Hans Eysenck
1710 in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, which philosopher claimed that body is merely perception of the mind?
George Berkeley
1027 Persian Philosopher and Physician who writes about trances in The Book of Healing?
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion in the 1880s, said to be placebo effect?
Emile Coue
Which philosopher in 1704 discussed petites perceptions (perceptions without consciousness) in his New Essays on Human Understanding?
Gottfried Leibniz
Who in 1912 wrote The Psychology of the Unconscious suggesting all people have a culturally specific collective unconscious?
Carl Jung
Born 1902 Oak Park, American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy: client centred therapy, student-centred learning etc. Based on a 1982 survey of 422 respondents of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was considered the most influential psychotherapist in history (Freud ranked third).
Carl Rogers
American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer. He gained notability as the creator of primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness that involves repeatedly descending into, feeling, and experiencing long-repressed childhood pain. Most notable book was 1970 The Primal Scream.
Arthur Janov
David Tennant starred as which Scottish psychiatrist in 2017 film Mad to be Normal? Working out of Kingsley Hall in London, he wrote extensively on mental illness in particular psychosis and schizophrenia. Known books: The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, The Divided Self, The Self and Others.
RD Laing
Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen’s 1967 song “So Long, Marianne”.
Marianne Ihlen
Born Ada, Ohio 1909, American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. Wrote The Meaning of Anxiety based on Kierkegard’s The Concept of Anxiety.
Rollo May
Roman poet and philosopher (born 99BC). His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe.
Lucretius
Born 1857 Switzerland, Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including “schizophrenia”, “schizoid”, “autism”, depth psychology.
Eugen Bleuler