1. Titchener’s goals and definitions for psychology
2. Stimulus error: definition and examples
3. Titchener’s theory changes during his life
a. What did Titchener believe at the start of his career?
b. How did his perspectives change during the end of his career?
4. Titchener’s theory of categorization for sensations
a. What are the four attributes common to all sensations?
b. Which of these attributes does not apply to feelings
5. Review the criticisms of introspection
a. How did Titchener address the idea that introspection was just
retrospection?
Chapter 6
1. Review the case study of Jenny and its relevance to inspiring research on
animals
2. Compare and Contrast Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution to
Darwin’s theory of evolution
3. Review evidence for naturalistic versus personalistic explanations for the
origins of evolution
a. Would a theory of evolution exist without Charles Darwin? In other
words, is there evidence that someone else would have proposed a
similar theory of evolution?
4. Review origins of ideas and key phrases in the theory of evolution
a. Who inspired Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest?
5. Review the follow-up study on Darwin’s finches
a. What did this shown about the variability of average beak depth in a
population?
b. Could beak depth change after a single generation?
6. How was Darwin’s book Descent of Man important for supporting research
on animals?
7. What were some of Francis Galton’s contributions to psychology and
statistics?
a. What did he discover about the distribution of mental characteristics?
8. How did the animal researcher Morgan improve research practices?
a. How is this similar to the law of parsimony?
Chapter 7
1. Describe Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism and its implications.
a. How receptive was the American public to these ideas of evolution
applied to social policy?
2. Review William James’ contributions to psychology
a. Three reasons historians given for the importance of William James
b. Compare and Contrast James to Wundt
c. James early theory of identity and parts of the self
3. Women’s contributions to function psychology and discrimination against
women
a. What hypothesis was identified as partially responsible for the
discrimination women faced?
b. Mary Calkins
c. Helen Woolley
d. Leta Hollingworth
4. Review contributions of Stanley Hall
a. Child development and Adolescence
b. Recapitulation theory
5. Review the founding of the functional school of thought
a. Who created the term functional to describe this school of thought?
b. Chicago School
c. Columbia School
Chapter 8
1. Mental testing movement:
a. How did the world wars and changes in public education inspire the
mental testing movement in psychology?
b. What was revealed by the Army Alpha and Army Beta about the general
education of men in the USA during this time period?
c. What does the IQ test measure and estimate?
d. How did the Stanford-Binet change from 1916 to 2003 based on the table
shown in class and in the slides?
e. What was discovered by Horace Bond about biases in intelligence testing?
f. What did a follow-up study by the APA Board of Scientific Affairs
discover about cultural bias in intelligence testing?
g. Review the origins of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
2. Clinical psychology movement:
a. How did clinical psychology begin in the United States, and how was the
focus of clinical psychology at this point different from how we think
about clinical psychology today?
b. Witmer’s theories and contributions
c. Compare and Contrast Hugo Munsterberg to Freud
i. What did each think were the cause of behavior problems?
3. Industrial-Organizational movement
a. Walter Dill Scott and his contributions
i. Laws of Suggestibility
ii. Employee selection and personality tests
b. Importance of the Hawthorne studies
c. What were Lillian Gilbreth’s contributions to industrial-organization
psychology?
4. Women’s contributions
a. Margaret Washburn
b. Psyche Cattel
c. Thelma Thurstone
d. Lillian Gilbreath