Test 3 - Final

Alfred Binet

Classified the kids of Paris.

Carl Stumpf

Known for the Clever Hans phenomenon.

Thorndike

Created the puzzle box experiment.

G. Stanley Hall

Invited Freud to the US.

Vaihinger

Known for the concept of 'As if' in psychology.

Dewey

Developed the Research arc concept in psychology.

Watson

Defined psychology from the behaviorist perspective.

Terman

Developed the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale.

Mary Cover Jones

Desensitized Peter with Watson's help.

Wundt

Pioneered mental chronometry in experimental psychology.

Wundt's conclusion on experimental psychology

Must stress selective attention.

Wundt's belief about feelings

Feelings are various combinations of three attributes.

Donders' method for discrimination time

Subtracting simple reaction time from discrimination reaction time.

Wundt’s principle of development of opposites

Occurs during goal-directed behavior changing motivational patterns.

Titchener's stimulus error

Occurs when meaning influences introspective analysis.

Brentano's term for mental acts

Intentionality.

Cattell's approach to intelligence

Believed systematic measurement was essential.

Goal of the Binet-Simon scale (1905)

To distinguish between normal children and those with intellectual disabilities.

Spearman's belief about intelligence

It is largely inherited.

Terman’s study of genius conclusion

Gifted children became gifted adults.

Early American psychology's view on psychology and God

Psychology exists for the sake of logic and logic for the sake of God.

American pragmatism principle

An idea should be evaluated in terms of its usefulness.

James' belief about ideas and behavior

Ideas cause behavior.

Munsterberg's belief about behavior

Behavior causes ideas.

James on jobs and social strata mixing

Habit keeps individuals working in boring jobs and prevents social mixing.

Hall's recapitulation theory

Each person reenacts all evolutionary stages in their lifetime.

Dewey's best way to learn

By engaging in the activities to be learned.

Romanes and animal research

Depended on anecdotal evidence and was characterized by anthropomorphizing.

Thorndike’s identical elements theory of transfer

Transfer of information depends on similarity between situations.

Watson & Rayner's research on Albert

Demonstrated that emotions could be displaced to new stimuli.

Watson's definition of thinking

Thinking is internal speech.