Review the reasons why psychologists study the history of psychology
2. What is the concept that refers to the methods and philosophical issues of historical
research?
a. What are some of the limitations of the data of history?
3. How are zeitgeist and naturalistic theory related?
a. Compare and contrast Zeitgeist and Naturalistic theory
4. What are some examples of evidence for the naturalistic and personalistic theory?
5. How does Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions apply to the study of history?
a. Review key concepts
b. Review the cycle of scientific revolution
6. How does the Hegelian Dialectical Model describe the development of ideas in
psychology?
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7. Why was the mechanical clock especially influential in spreading the ideas of a
mechanical universe to the general population?
8. What were Rene Descartes contributions to the mind-body problem?
9. Compare and contrast Descartes innated versus derived ideas from Decartes doctrine of
ideas.
10. Compare and contrast John Stuart Mill to his father James Mills.
11. Review the contributions of each of the British Empiricists:
a. John Locke
b. James Mill
c. John Stuart Mill
d. George Berkeley
12. How did the work of Charles Babbage influence the zeitgeist of the mechanical universe?
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13. What was the personal equation studied by Bessel and how was it important to the study
of perception?
14. What were the three methods of studying the brain used by early physiologists?
15. What evidence demonstrated that phrenology could not be used to accurately predict
human behavior and personality?
16. What was the neuron doctrine?
a. how did it contribute to the zeitgeist of the time period?
17. What type of mathematical relationship exists between physical stimulus intensity and
perceived stimulus intensity based upon the Weber-Fechner equation?
18. Why were psychophysics so important to the development of psychology as a science?
19. What did research on Just Noticeable Difference reveal about the changes in stimulus
intensity needed before a perceived difference was recognized?
20. Why was Germany the center of the development of psychology as a science?
21. What were Fechner’s methods of psychophysics?
a. What were some of the first quantitative methods applied to the measure of
perception?
22. What did Helmholtz contribute to the study of perception and human anatomy?
a. What measurement of mental activity did Helmholtz demonstrate was possible?
23. What did members of the Berlin Physics Society pledge?
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24. What is the difference between a founder and originator in terms of creating a new school
of thought?
25. Describe Wundt’s methods of introspection in detail:
a. How was Wundt’s method of introspection different from traditional
philosophical uses of introspection?
b. How did Wundt’s method of introspection differ from some of his students?
26. What did Wundt learn from his own experiments on Friedrich Bessel’s personal equation
concept?
27. What type of data did Wundt prefer to collect in his experimental psychology laboratory?
28. How did Wundt approach the dialectical problem of reductionism versus holism?
29. What school of thought or group of psychologists were by Wundt’s principle of
apperception?
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