The History Of Psychology

Question 1

Temporal contiguity

Answer 1

Associating events and ideas that occur close in time with each other

Question 2

Dualists

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Mind - body dualists thought the body might be mechanical but the mind and soul are spiritual

Question 3

Rene Descartes

Answer 3

French philosopher who thought the body was basically and machine but the mind only interacts with the body through the pineal gland

Question 4

Spinoza

Answer 4

17th century philosopher who laid much of the philosophical foundation for modern science of psyc, monist, more correct at the time

Question 5

Monist

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Believed the mind and body were different aspects of the same phenomenon

Question 6

Associationists

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Believed that people learn linking or association sensations with each other

Question 7

Law of association

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Emphasize contiguity and other principles that were thought to help people form associations between thoughts memories and experiences

Question 8

Empiricists

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Maintained that knowledge comes to us by the way of sense

Question 9

Locke and Hume

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British empiricists that laid much of the philosophical foundation for modern psychology

Question 10

Phrenology

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19th century movement which states that a trained expert could learn about the psychological characteristics of a person by feeling the bumps on his or her head

Question 11

Localization of the brain function

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The notion that brain function is important for psychological processes emphasized because they stressed that particular brain areas performed specific mental functions

Question 12

Phineas Gage

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19th century brain damage victim

Question 13

William Wundt and William James

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Established 1st Psyc lab in 1879 wrote influential psyc textbooks

Question 14

Ivan povlou

Answer 14

Reflexes later discovered basic mechanisms of learning (conditions dogs with a Bell)