History of Psychology Exam #2

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Charles Darwin
Father of Evolutionary Theory
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HMS Beagle
Captain Robert Fitzroy, allowed Darwin passage to the Galapagos
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Captain Robert Fitzroy believed in
phrenology
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Animal psychology led to
Behaviorism
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Darwin is the father of individual differences in psychology in ____
Species
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Francis Galton
Produced the first IQ tests
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Galton is the father of individual differences in ____
Humans
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Galton developed our understanding of ____
mean, median, standard deviation
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Galton was the father of _____
Eugenics
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Law of Parsimony

keep it simple

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Founder of Modern Psychology

Wundt

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Originator of modern psychology

Fechner

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Leipzig

The University where Wundt studied psychology for 45 years

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The categories that Wundt divided the study of psychology into

Social and Experimental

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Voluntarism

The organization of the mind’s content into higher-level thought processes

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Mediate Experiences

remembering

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Immediate Experiences

experiencing

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Introspective Method According to Wundt

Observers must be able to determine when the process is introduced, be in a state of readiness, and the observation must be repeatable and variable

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Sensation according to Wundt

arousal of a sense organ when stimulated that resulted impulses reach the brain

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Feeling according to Wundt

the subjective complements to a sensation that do not arise from the sense organ (emotional)

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Tridimensional Theory of Feeling

Pleasure/displeasure, Tension/relaxation, Excitement/Depression

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Galton’s measures of intellectual functioning assumed correlation between intelligence and _____

acuteness of the senses

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Galton found that a substantial proportion of word associations were evidence of _____

the effects of childhood experiences on the adult

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What additional interests did Galton research?

Arithmetic by smell, paranoid disorders, the power of prayer

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Which of the following statements is NOT part of social Darwinism?

Each nation should have a social welfare program to support the poor.

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What about Darwin’s work was new?

His hard data to support the theory of evolution

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The work of Romanes was especially flawed because of his

use of the anecdotal method

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A theory of evolution based on natural selection was developed independently by _____

Darwin and Wallace

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In his book _____, Darwin explained human emotional gestures, postures, and other aspects of body language that convey emotion as remnants of adaptive remnants by animals.

The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals

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Who argued for the sterilization of mental defectives and advocated for the 'best and brightest’ to marry and have children?

Cattell

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Other than Stumpf’s research, his greatest influence on psychology may have been ____

educating the founders of Gestalt psychology

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The fundamental purpose of Ebbinghaus using nonsense syllables was to _____

Control for previous learning or associations

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Brentano’s Act psychology, in contrast to Wundt’s approach, claimed that psychology should _____

study mental processes or functions and not mental structure

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The cultural psychology of Wundt examined evidence from _____

Examination of language, myths, customs, law, and morals

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Kulpe opposed Wundt by claiming that conscious thought processes can be carried out without the presence of sensation or feelings, Kulpe’s view is known as ____

Imageless thought

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The first system or school of thought in psychology was called:

voluntarism by Wundt

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Wundt established psychology as distinct from philosophy primarily in terms of its _____

Use of the experimental method

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According to lecture and your book what is introspection?

Looking into ones own mental state to inspect and report on ones own thoughts or feelings

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Titchener took Wundt’s introspective method a step further with a goal of

Making introspection second nature to where the person did not even know they were introspecting

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In his introspection experiments, Titchener wanted his subjects to

be passive recorders of the experiences registering on the conscious mind

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The school of structuralism includes the work and/or systems of who?

Titchener

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Wundt’s focus was on _____, whereas Titchener’s was on _____.

Synthesis of elements, analysis of elements

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Who was a student of Titchener’s?

Margaret Floy Washburn

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One of the main reasons that Titchener’s thought was believed to closely parallel that of Wundt’s was because…

Titchener translated Wundt’s books from German to English

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Who said psychology was NOT in the business of curing sick minds?

Titchener

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When Titchener died, the era of structuralism ______.

Collapsed

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Titchener argued that psychology is unique among the sciences because _____.

psychology alone is dependent on experiencing persons

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Behavioral and cognitive disorders would be attributed most heavily to ____ by Witmer.

environmental factors

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G. Stanley Hall advocated which of the following approaches in his theory of child development?

Recapitulationist view

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Binet and Simon’s test differed from Galton and Cattell’s in its _____.

Emphasis on the relationship of higher cognitive processes to intelligence.

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What did William James publish in 1890?

Principles of Psychology

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Who extended the age range of the Stanford-Binet downward?

Psyche Cattell

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Which sequence on emotion would be correct according to William James?

We strike a person, then become angry

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Woolley’s research on sex differences and alleged male superiority was…

The first experimental test of the variability hypothesis of male superiority.