Clockwork History ⚙️
The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry
What is Mechanism?
The question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities.
What is the Mind-Problem problem?
These ideas arise from both sensation and reflection, and are received passively by the mind.
What are Simple Ideas?
Watson’s science of behavior, which dealt solely with observable behavioral acts that could be described in objective terms
What is Behaviorism?
The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times.
What is Zeitgeist?
The doctrine that explains complex phenomena on one in terms of phenomena on another, simpler, level.
The purpose of knowledge through the observation of nature and attribution of all knowledge to experience.
What is Empiricism?
What are complex ideas?
A system of psychology that focuses on the process of knowing, on how the mind actively organizes experiences.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
This man is credited for formulating the basic principles of modern computers.
Who is Charles Babbage?
The idea of mechanism came about as a result of the work of Galileo Galilei and the English physicist and mathematician ___, who was trained as a clockmaker.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
What is Reflex Action Theory?
An early name for the process psychologists call “learning.”
What are Associations?
A system of psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in an organism’s adaptation to its environment.
Proposed by John Stuart Mill ~ the notion that complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities; the combination of the mental elements creates something greater than or different from the sum of the original elements.
What is Creative Synthesis?
According to Daniel Boorstin, this invention was considered the "mother of machines".
What is the Mechanical Clock?
Ideas are that arise from direct application of a stimulus.
What are Derived Ideas?
John Locke these qualities existed in objects whether or not we perceive them.
What are Primary Qualities?
Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality and system of psychotherapy
What is Psychoanalysis?
The view that progress and change in scientific history are attributable to the Zeitgeist, which makes a culture receptive to some ideas but not to others.
Naturalistic theory
As technology was refined, these mechanical contraptions were built to imitate human movement and action.
What are Automata?
These were believed to be hollow tubes filled with liquid animal spirits
What are nerves?
These object qualities, such as taste, color, or odor, exist not in the object, but in the person's perception of the object.
What are Secondary Qualities?
A system of psychology that focuses largely on learning and perception, suggesting that combining sensory elements produces new patterns with properties that did not exist in the individual elements.
What is Gestalt psychology?
The view that progress and change in scientific history are attributable to the ideas of unique individuals.
What is Personalistic theory?