Contrasting Pairs
Systems
Origins
Reference Experiments
Random
100
The ongoing debate about one kind of matter vs. two kinds of matter.
What is monism vs. dualism?
100
Consciousness: emphasis on what not how or why.
What is structuralism?
100
Create falsifiable hypothesis, design study, collect data, analyze data, conclusion, and share.
What is the experimental method?
100
The optical illusion of motion of objects when viewed rapidly.
What is the phi phenomenon?
100
______ dealt with the experience of the observer left out while _____ dealt with the experience of the observer left in according to Kulpe and Titchner.
What is physics and psychology?
200
The laws for groups vs. individuals.
What is nomotheticism vs. idiographicism?
200
Mental states established by functional role.
What is functionalism?
200
Systematic empiricism, publicly verifiable knowledge, and empirically solvable problems.
What is a science?
200
An objects size seems constant even when a changing distance.
What is size consistency?
200
Spirit of the times.
What is Zietgeist?
300
Free will or no.
What is indeterminism vs. determinism?
300
Ignores consciousness.
What is behaviorism?
300
The psychological pope of the old world and the psychological pope of the new world.
Who are Wilhelm Wundt and William James?
300
Experiment where babies won’t go off the table onto the plexiglass to avoid the appearance of falling.
What is the visual cliff?
300
The differences between these two: that everything can be broken down to its atoms, the mind and body follow the same physical laws, and all life is deterministic.
What is reductionism vs. holism?
400
The countable vs. characteristics.
What is quantitativism vs. qualitativism?
400
Can’t be explained by its parts.
What is holism?
400
The year the first psychological laboratory was created.
What is 1891?
400
100 X (mental age / chronological age).
What is intelligence quotient?
400
The idea that we have innate knowledge of things or we have to learn our knowledge.
What is nature vs. nurture?
500
Experience vs. reason.
What is empiricism vs. rationalism?
500
Unconscious processes, motivation, psychosexual development.
What is psychoanalytic psychology?
500
Logical structures that unify observable data and followers of a dominant person.
What are systems and schools?
500
Metric and set of procedures for attaining thresholds for senses.
What is just noticeable difference?
500
What we do not what we think vs. mental processes like thinking, perception, problem solving.
What is behaviorism vs. cognitive psychology?
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