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What does zeitgeist mean?
Spirit of the times
Some would say psychology began with wundt, what year?
1879
Who was the first philosopher?
Thales
What was did Heraclitus say?
You can never step into the same river twice
Who opposed Heraclitus?
Parmenides
Who would be happy if you drop a pencil it would never touch the table?
Zeno
What said Cogito ergo sum, and what does it mean?
Descartes it means I think therefore I am
What we did today is better than what we did before?
Presentist Bias
Who is the most influential historian of psychology?
E.G. Boring
Who fixed the calendar using the heliocentric method?
Copernicus
What is the range for scatter plots?
-1 to 1
What is the effect related to Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Hawthorne
What is the study of knowledge?
Epistemology
When I say my plant misses me when I went on vacation I am using?
Anthropomorphism
What did Anaximander create?
Maps
Who is the Roman God of wine and orgy?
Bacchus
Who is famous for split brain research?
Roger Sperry
In split brain research of cats we cut the?
Corpus Callosum and the Optic Chiasm
What is the debate between Genes vs. Environment
Nature vs. Nurture
Who coined the term philosophy
Pythagoras
Who said there are only atoms in the void?
Democritus
Who said, “Man is the measure of all things”?
Protagoras
Why was Socrates named the wisest of all?
He knew he knew not
Who founded the academy
Plato
First doctor of antiquity?
Hippocrates
Who created the humors personality theory?
Galen
“the only way to avoid believing something that could be false is not to believe anything at all”, what school is this?
Skepticism
“To find an honest man in the daytime with a lantern.” who said this and what school are they from
Diogenes, Cynicism
What happened in 1255?
Church asserts that Aristotelian thought is dogma
Who found the moon was not a perfect circle and which person’s ideas does this go against?
Galileo, Aristotle
Which is a stronger correlation 0.6 or -0.8?
-0.8
How do you say blank slate in Latin?
Tabula Rasa
Who coined the term catharsis?
Aristotle
A poet can say "I love, who will understand". But a scientist believes that things are to be understood.
Logical Positivism
What did Newton add to math?
Calculus
Who said “the end justify the means?”
Machiavelli
The degree to which a question “looks like” measures what it says it measures
Face validity
Who defended a more personal and less ritualistic christianity?
Luther
Atheoretical test construction
MMPI
Who talked about the four types of idols?
Sir Francis Bacon
Who said you can have reason but only in faith
St. Augustine
Who said you can have both faith and reason and that reason doesn’t have to be in the service of faith
Thomas Aquinas
Who converted to Christianity on his death bed, so the entire empire turned Christian
Emperor Constantine
What is another name for the Principle of Parsimony
Occam’s Razor
What school said you can’t change anything so you must make the best of it?
Stoicism
What school of philosophy leads to behaviorism?
British Empiricism
James Mill is famous for … and his son John Stuart Mill is famous for
Mental physics, Mental chemistry
Who is famous for the quote “nature has used but one dough”?
La Mettrie
The study of feeling bumps on head for personality
Phrenology
Who speaks about the law of cause and effect?
Hume
Who is the major leader of Utilitarianism?
Bentham
Who said “Life is nasty brutal and short”?
Thomas Hobbes
What does homo homini lupus mean?
Man is wolf to man
Man is wolf to man
Homo homini lupus
Who spoke of petite perceptions?
Leibniz
Who is the founder of Scottish Common Sense?
Thomas Reid
What is it called when you give up freedom for security?
Social contract
How do you say Superman in German?
Übermensch
Who says: “Is man just one of God’s mistakes or is God just one of man’s?”
Nietzsche
The term used to describe a positive defense mechanism that converts an instinctual impulse into positive activity
Sublimation
Who is the founder of existentialism?
Kierkegaard
Who wrote Faust?
Goethe
Who said society messes us up?
Rousseau
You should act in such a way that your actions should become a law
Categorical Imperative
According to Kant we should treat people as ____ in themselves instead of ____ means.
ends, mere
What is the Latin term for before this?
A priori
Gibson’s visual cliff is an example of I______ power of the mind
Innate
Who coined the term repression?
Herbart
Freud used Nietzsche’s word “Das es” which is translated as
Id
What school of philosophy states that our primary issue is awareness of our own mortality?
Existentialism
What saying relates to when your immune system fights off disease?
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
What are the 3 parts of Hegel Dialectic process?
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Who came up with the resonance place theory of auditory perception?
Helmholtz
Who’s firing from an observatory inspired a something of reaction time
Kinnebrook
____ ______ law states that there are both sensory and motor nerves
Bell-Magendie
Name and surname of the man who had barely survived an accident that changed his personality
Phineas Gage
Who came up with just noticeable differences (JND)
Weber
What school of thought said life is meaningless?
Nihilism
Whose 10 volume work was called völkerpsychologie
Wundt
Who was Titchener's teacher?
Wundt
Who was the forerunner of the DSM
Kraeplin
Titchener’s student who was the most famous historian of psychology
E. G. Boring
Titchener’s first doctoral candidate and first woman to receive a doctorate in psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn
Who wanted to train their introspection so they would not mix stimulus errors?
Titchener
Who founded the school of structuralism?
Titchener
Famous horse that made people believe he could do maths
Clever Hans
Famous for the study of nonsense syllables
Ebbinghaus
William Stern came up with the idea of IQ which was formulated ____ over ___
mental age, chronological age
What is another name for the Trichromatic color theory?
Young-Helmholtz
Who came up with the idea of creative synthesis?
Wundt
Who came up with the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Lamarck
Who made survival of the fittest (Not Darwin)?
Spencer
Where did Darwin go on the H.M.S. Beagle?
Galapagos Islands
The selective breeding of humans is called
Eugenics
Who started the study of genetics by studying pea plants?
Mendel
The concept that aspects of genes can be turned on and off due to environmental factors is called?
Epigenetics
The concept that there is only so much to go around that somebody has, and somebody doesn’t is called ____ ___ game
Zero sum
Who said the population is controlled through starvation
Malthus
What invented the idea of correlation
Galton
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