This philosopher’s radical idea stated that the relationship between the mind and the body is mutually interactive.
Who is Descartes?
100
This term describes consciousness as a continuous flowing process, and that any attempt to reduce it to its elements will distort it.
What is Stream of consciousness?
100
Psychology is made up of this science plus this school of thought
What is Physiology + Philosophy = Psychology?
100
This theory applied the Theory of Evolution to human character and society, with a central emphasis on the “survival of the fittest”.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
This method was used by many early psychologists and involves the examination of ones own mind.
What is Introspection?
200
This person began the field of clinical psychology and opened the world’s first psychology clinic.
Who was Lightner Witmer?
200
The attempt to resolve this issue inspired the work of many early psychologists, and questions the distinction between the mental and physical world.
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
200
Franz Josef Gall founded this movement which proposed that the shape of a person’s skull revealed his/her intellectual and emotional characteristics.
What is Phrenology?
200
In this theory, William James suggested that a person’s mental representation of themselves is made up of the material, social, and spiritual aspects.
What is the Three-Part Self?
200
Hermann Ebbinghaus developed these, which revolutionized the study of learning.
What are Nonsense syllables?
300
This prominent lecturer brought psychology to the United States, emphasized the elements of consciousness, and warned against committing stimulus error during introspection.
Who is Edward Titchener?
300
This term refers to Francis Galton’s idea that society should discourage the birth of the unfit, and therefore foster the improvement of the inherited qualities of the human race.
What is Eugenics?
300
This school of thought was concerned primarily with the organization and elements of consciousness.
What is Structuralism?
300
William James stated that the arousal of the physical response precedes the experience of an emotion. In other words, physiological responses come before emotion.
What is the Theory of Emotions?
300
This method included the posthumous examination of brain structures to detect damaged areas assumed to be responsible for behavioral conditions.
What is the Clinical Method?
400
This astronomer was fired for his observations consistently being off by 8/10ths of a second.
Who is David Kinnebrook?
400
Describing an apple as a smooth, red, circular object is an example of using what type of experience?
What is a Mediate Experience?
400
This school of thought was concerned with the mind’s ability to adapt to one’s environment.
What is Functionalism?
400
This idea was that men showed a wider range of physical and mental development than women, and therefore women were viewed as evolutionarily inferior.
What is the Variability Hypothesis?
400
This technique removed part of an animal’s brain in order to uncover its function
What is Extirpation?
500
Although his research was largely discredited, this person founded the American Psychological Association (APA) and the first psychology journal in the United States.
Who was Granville Stanley Hall?
500
Frederick Wilhelm Bessel used this term to describe differences in astronomer’s observations due to individual differences in perception over which they had no control.
What is the Personal Equation?
500
This school of thought focuses on learning and perception that combining the elements of consciousness does not provide an adequate understanding of the entirety of the conscious experience.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
500
This explanation for emotional experience is based on three main continuums: Pleasure versus Displeasure, Tension versus Relaxaton, and Excitement versus Depression.
What is the Tri-dimensional theory of feelings?
500
This method posits by inquiring into the psychological functioning of different populations such as animals, infants, and disturbed individuals, psychology could uncover meaningful variation in mental life.