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As a discipline, psychology is one of the...
oldest and newest disciplines
The three contextual forces in the history of psychology were _______.
Wars, jobs, and discrimination
Why was the mechanical clock a revolutionary invention?
Clocks brought precision, regularity, and predictability to everyday life, which was later developed into a model for science.
What was the most influential philosophical doctrine to modern psychology?
empiricism
In his research, ____ performed an autopsy on a man with speech problems, thereby identifying a speech center of the brain.
Broca
The new discipline of psychology was the product of the union of philosophy and...
physiology
Modern psychology shares which of the following characteristics with ancient Greek philosophy?
the same questions about human nature
The doctrine that explains a phenomenon by disassembling it to its simplest parts in an effort to understand how it works is called:
reductionism
Titchener discarded aspects of Wundt's system, including ____.
apperception
Fechner's most important contribution to psychology was the ____.
mind/body relationship
the principles, methods, and philosophical issues involved in historical research is known as...
historiography
What was the most influential philosophical doctrine to modern psychology?
Empiricism
The Zeitgeist of 17th to 19th century Europe and of the United States was marked by ________.
mechanism
Whose research would support the argument that there is no such thing as objective observation?
Bessel
the three dimensions of Wundt's tridimensional theory of feelings?
pleasure/displeasure; tension/relaxation; excitement/depression.
the intellectual and cultural climate of the times
Zeitgeist
John Locke disagreed with the doctrine of innate ideas. According to Locke, ____.
the mind was a blank slate
Founder of psychology as a discipline
Wundt
According to Wundt, if you look at a rose and observe, "The rose is red," you are observing the ____ experience
mediate experience
The school of structuralism includes the work
Titchener
"The man makes the times," reflects which view of history?
personalistic
Before Descartes, the accepted point of view was that the interaction between mind and body was essentially unidirectional (one way), in that....
The mind influenced the body
Wundt’s introspection was marked by what?
rigorous training
Titchener argued that psychology is unique among the sciences because ____.
it involves human experience
While Wundt emphasized ____ and ____ reports during introspection, Titchener used ____ and ____ introspective reports.
objective quantitative subjective qualitative