Mechanisms
Beginnings of Modern Science
Founders of New Psychology
Perception
100
This is the philosophy that holds the image of the universe as a great machine?
What is the Spirit of Mechanism
100
The mechanistic conception of the body, the theory of reflex action, and the mind-body interaction are a few examples of this man's contributions.
Who is Descartes
100
In opposition to his father, this man applied ideas from chemistry to mental functioning, calling it mental chemistry.
Who is John Stuart Mill
100
This is the doctrine that considers the facts of the universe to be sufficiently explained in physical terms by the existence and nature of matter.
What is Materialism
200
This is the device that could perform marvelous feats with precision and regularity and influenced people to believe that humans were like machines.
What is Automata
200
This is defined as "The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to experience."
What is Empiricism
200
This man wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature", and offered three laws of association: resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect.
Who is David Hume
200
These are characteristics such as size and shape that exist in an object whether or not we perceive them
What are Primary qualities
300
This man created his Calculating Engine because of his interest in the Automata and clocks, and called himself "The Programmer".
Who is Charles Babbage
300
This theory is a precursor of modern behavioral stimulus-response psychology, in which an external object brings about an involuntary response.
What is the Reflex Action Theory
300
This man invented the doctrine that recognizes only natural phenomena or facts that are objectively observable, or Positivism.
Who is Auguste Comte
300
These are characteristics such as color and odor that exist in our perception of the object.
What are Secondary Qualities
400
This is the doctrine that acts are determined by past events.
What is Determinism?
400
This is the question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities.
What is the Mind Body Problem
400
This man wrote "The Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind", and believed the human mind to be nothing more than a machine.
Who is James Mill
400
One of Hume's three laws of association, this is the notion that the more alike two ideas are, the more readily they will be associated.
What is Resemblance
500
This is the doctrine that explains phenomena on one level, in terms of phenomena on another level. (Complex ideas/Simple ideas).
What is Reductionism
500
As opposed to Derived, these ideas arise from the mind or consciousness, independent of sensory experiences or external stimuli.
What are Innate Ideas
500
Later coined as Mentalism, this man believed that all knowledge was a function of—or depended on—the experiencing or perceiving person.
Who is George Berkley
500
This is the notion that the more closely linked two ideas are in time or place, the more readily they will be associated.
What is Contiguity
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