History
Distinguished older disciplines of philosophy from modern psychology
Thomas Willis' coined term
What is reflex?
The sources of ideas that result from experience and compose the mind
What is sensation and reflection?
The father of American Psychology
Who is William James?
An example of distortion
What is the faulty translation of Freud's German written notes regarding personality?
Clinical Case with Paul Broca
What is the case of Tan Tan's inability to speak coherently due to motor aphasia?
An association made when things are experienced together
What is contiguity?
The organization created by G. Stanley Hall as he institutionalized psychology's professional status
What is the American Psychological Association (APA)?
Progress and change are attributed to the ideas of unique individuals
What is Personalistic Theory?
Helmoltz research at the University of Königsberg involved the study of
The Three Laws of Association
Procedure involving learning and remembering the associations between stimuli that are artificially associated
What is paired-associate learning?
Heavily influenced the development of psychology
What is contextual forces: economics, discrimination, and wars?
He discovered frog leg muscles respond to physical stimulation with research of the spinal cord and reflex action
Who is Robert Whytt?
British Empiricism
What is the idea that our knowledge is constructed from our experiences?
Challenged the male monopoly and invented a memory procedure still in use
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Zeitgeist
What is the intellectual, cultural, or spiritual climate of the time?
The Clinical Method
What is (a) studying behavioral and mental consequences of brain injury and (b) examining brain structural abnormalities of individuals with mental disorders?
Prominent figures of British Empiricism
Who is John Locke & David Hume?
The James-Lange Theory
What is the sequence of emotions as follows: perception of external stimuli, subjective experience of emotion, then bodily response?