Philosophy
Physiology
The New Psychology
100
He said, "I think therefore I am".
René Descartes
100
He was the first who said that the brain was the center of consciousness, wisdom, emotion, and intelligence.
Hippocrates
100
“the world’s first true psychologist”
Wilhelm Wundt
200
He believed that humans are born a blank slate. (tabula rasa)
John Locke
200
Mesmer treated many conditions (including mental disorders) with _________
Magnets
200
Psychology was born in __________ (year)
1879
300
Every act is determined by past events (Nothing happens out of a blue)
Determinism
300
The development of Mesmer"s" Treatment" of mental disorders was greatly influenced by_________ (whom)
Isaac Newton
300
___________ syllables presented in a meaningless series to study memory processes
Nonsense Syllables
400
Charles Babbage is the founder of __________
“The difference engine”
400
Emil Kraepelin was the father of ___________ (what did he create?)
mental classification
400
Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve
shows that material is forgotten rapidly in the first few hours after learning and more slowly thereafter
500
What is empiricism?
Individual acquires knowledge through experience and leaning
500
In the early and mid-20th century, a common treatment for some mental illnesses involved surgically removing parts of the frontal lobe of the brain, a treatment called ______
lobotomy.
500
The first psychologist to investigate learning and memory experimentally.
Hermann Ebbinghaus