Important People
Who thought that the mind was a blank slate upon which experience writes and what phrase did he use to refer to the mind
John Locke & Tabula rasa
The techniques, principles, and issues involved in historical research
Historiography
Rene Descartes lost this when he was being transported back to France from Sweden upon his death.
His head or finger
What invention was considered the perfect metaphor for the "spirit of mechanism"
The Clock
What Division did the APA assign to the History of Psychology?
26
This person got fired for being 5/10th of a second off of a measurement copmared to that of his boss
David Kinnebrook
The first detection of heat once you put your hand on a burner is the _______ threshold
absolute
Aldini spared the lives of animals when doing his research by experimenting on
Dead criminals
The mechanistic spirit exemplified the ________ of the 17th century
Zeitgeist
This movement had the biggest influence on Psychology
Empiricism
the first African American President of the APA was this person
Kenneth Clark
This involves exploring the brain posthumously to determine a reason for the abnormal behavior while the person was living .
The clinical Method
This person's body was left unattended after his death until it began to decompose as he felt that putrification was the only sure sign of death
George Berkley
This was known as the "mother of all machines"
The clock
This study showed that it is difficult to pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
The invisible gorilla
This person discovered the importance that human perception plays in the role of human observation
William Bessel
Cranioscopy is now known as
Phrenology
This prominent person in psychology's cocaine use was downplayed over the years
Sigmund Freud
Mechanical contraptions built to imitate human movementand action were known as
Automata
Psychology is more __________ today than it ever has been in its history
Divided
This Person discovered the two point threshold
Ernest Weber
These qualities, proposed by Locke, exist in the person's perception of the object.
Secondary qualities
This person had a dream that he would get better in 77 days , to which he did.
Gustav Fechner
Many philosophers and physiologists tended to think of the human body as a _____________ due to the zeigeist of the times.
Machine
Modern psychology emerged from philosophy approximately ____ years ago
200