History and Systems

What does Zeitgeist mean?

Spirt of the times

Some people think the start of psychology with Wundt in?

1879

From where did the greeks get geometry?

Egypt

Who was considered the first Greek philosopher?

Thales

Heraclitus's famous quote?

“You’ll never step in the same river twice”

Who was the opposition of Heraclitus?

Parmenides

Who coined the term philosophy?

Pythagoras

Who said that if you drop a pencil it will neer touch the ground?

Zeno

Who said there are only atoms and void?

Democritus

What word does now mean clever misleading argument?

Rhetoric

Who said: “man is the measure of all things”?

Protagoras

Sócrates was considered the most clever one by the oracle because?

“He knew, he knew not”

Who founded the Academy?

Plato

Who was the first doctor in Antiquity?

Hippocrates

Who had a humorous theory of personality?

Galen

Which school of thought believes that every belief could be proven wrong?

Skepticism

Diogenes, looking for an honest man with a lantern in the daytime, what school is it?

Cynicism

What happened in 1255?

Aristotle became the church dogma

Who said: “cogito ergo sum”?

Descartes

What does “cogito ergo sum” mean?

“I think, therefore I am”

Who coined the term catharsis?

Aristotle

Who said: “the reason is okay as long as it is in favor of faith”?

Saint Agustine

Who said you can have both faith and reason, and reason does not have to be in favor of faith?

Saint Thomas Aquinas

What school says that you can't change anything so you might as well make the best of it?

Stoicism

Another way to say it: the principle of parsimony?

Occams Razor

What group of people maintained Aristotle's philosophy practically intact?

Arabic

Who said the moon is not a perfect circle and who went against him?

Galileo, against Aristotle

Who accepted Christianity and imposed it on the roman empire?

Empire Constantine

The fact that we value the new things over the old things?

Presentist bias

Most famous psychology historian?

E.G Boring

Another word for observer effect?

Hawthorne effect

A poet can say “I love, who will understand”. But a scientist believes that things are to be understood.

Logical Positivism

The idea that god created the universe and then let it go.

Deism

What did Newton add to math?

Calculus

Who said: “the ends 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?

Martin Luther

Atheoretical test construction?

MMPI

Descartes says the nerves are hollow tubes with?

Animal Spirits

Who talked about the four types of idols?

Francis Bacon

When I say that my plant is sad when I leave I am?

Anthropomorphism

Who was interested in split brain research?

Roger Sperry

In split brain theory then cut the?

Optic Chasm and the Corpus Coliseum

Who made the brain map?

Penfield

Who fixed the calendar?

Copernicus

Who believed science evolved by rejecting old ideas and who believed it was due to paradigm shifts?

Popper, and Cuhn

The study of knowledge?

Epistemology

What school of philosophy leads to behavioralism?

British Empiricism

James miller is famous for….. and his son John Stuart Mill is famous for….

Mental Physics, and Mental Chemistry

Who is famous for the quote “nature has used but one dough.”

La Mettrie

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

What do operational definitions do?

Take an hypothetical construct and make it measurable

Who said “life is nasty, brutal, and short?”

Hobbes

What does homo hominy lupus mean?

Man is wolf to man

Who said “there is nothing in the mind that wasn’t first in the sense, except from the mind itself?”

Leibniz

Who coined the term “petite perception?”

Leibniz

Who is the founder of Scottish common sense philosophy?

Thomas Reid

Who speaks about the maxims of our moral decisions should be used as a guide to everyone else?

Emmanuel Kant

Which are the three parts of Hegel’s dialectic process?

Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis

Who coined the term repression?

Herbart

What is the term that means mental framework?

Schema

Who spoke about the paradox of progress?

Eric Fromm

What is the term for unconscious forgetting?

Repression

Categorical Imperative

Made up of moral obligations

Kant said…

People should be used as an end in themselves.. not a mere means.

Eleanor Gibson

Visual cliff, fear of falling

The visual cliff is an example of an?

Innate Repose

What is latin for before?

A priority

Who created Phrenology?

Gall

To give up power to the government?

Social Contract

Who made the statement white paper?

John Locke

The outpost.com commercials were an example of?

Vividness

Who said society messes us up?

Rousseau

Who wrote a book called “Faust”?

Goethe

Who is the founder of existentialism?

Kierkegaard

The term used to describe a positive defense mechanism that convert an instinctual impulse into a positive activity?

Sublimation

How do you say “superman” in German?

Ubermensch

Who says “Is man just one of gods mistakes or is god just one of mans”?

Nietszche

Study of human consciousness?

Phenomenology

Another name for theory of color vision?

Young-Helmholtz

Who came up with the resonance place theory of auditory perception?

H. Von Helmoltz

Who explained the negative afterimage?

E. Hering

Him getting fired led to individual differences?

Kinnebrook

Law states that there are both sensory and motor nerves?

Bell-magendie

Part of the brain in charge of speech?

Broca’s area

Comprehensive area of the brain?

Wernicke

Name and surname of the an who had a rarely survival accident that changed his personality?

Phineas Gage

Coined the idea of noticeable differences?

Weber

Wundts evrsion of psychology was called?

Voluntarism

Who founded structuralism?

Titchener

Who was Titchener’s teacher?

Wundt

Whose 10 volume work was called volkerpsychology?

Wundt

Who created the term “creative synthesis?”

Wundt

Who was the forerinner of the DSM?

Kraepelin

Titchener student who ended up being the most famous psychological historian?

E.G. Boring

Titcheners first doctoral candidate and first women to receive a doctorate in psychology?

Margaret Floyd Washbum

Who trained so that they did not make stimulus errors in the introspection?

Titchener

Famous horse that made people believe he could do math?

Clever Hans