Research approach
Used by structuralists, this research method involved having participants make small, repeated mental judgments in response to some stimulus
What is controlled introspection?
This famous behaviorist psychologist studied operant conditioning and was known for being "anti-mentalist"
Who was B.F. Skinner?
This 1913 publication by John Watson was titled "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" but was known as the . . .
What is the "Behaviorist Manifesto"?
The device invented by Skinner to use as an alternative to a baby crib or playpen, which looked like a large box and was temperature controlled.
What is the "Baby Tender"?
This Gestalt psychologist emigrated from Germany and became well known in the U.S. for his social psychological studies of group dynamics and field theory.
Who was Kurt Lewin?
The Gestalt psychologists studied subjective experience, and believed in leaving the experience intact and whole, not breaking it down. What method is this?
What is phenomenological?
An early advocate for eugenics and IQ testing, he started the Vineland School for the Feebleminded and published a fictional case study of "The Kallikak Family"
Who is Henry Goddard?
This concept is an idea connected to the Romantic approach to science, and it refers to focusing on the whole rather than breaking a thing down into atoms or parts.
What is Holism?
The year that Freud and Jung traveled to America to give talks at Clark University.
What is 1909?
Pioneer in Industrial/Organizational psychology, she became known as an innovative designer of kitchen spaces and appliances, while raising 11 children alone after her husband died.
Who was Lillian Gilbreth?
What is "Case Study"?
This behaviorist conducted the famous "Little Albert" study and was involved in a scandalous divorce case.
Who was John Watson?
Psychoanalysis brought this concept into modern consciousness; it refers to a level of consciouness that is unacknowledged yet motivates many of our behaviors.
What is the unconsious?
She was the research assistant who worked with John Watson on the "Little Albert" study and later married him.
Who was Rosalie Rayner?
He was a Russian physiologist who 'discovered' the principles of classical conditioning while working with dogs and noticing they salivated at odd times.
Who was Pavlov?
The only perspective we've covered so far that has emphasized controlled experimentation through manipulation of the environment
What is Behaviorism?
This little known early psychologist opened the first Psychological Clinic and is considered the first school psychologist.
Who is Witmer?
Skinner coined this term to refer to the type of learning that governs voluntary behaviors and happens through environmental prompts and consequences (like rewards and punishments).
What is operant conditioning?
She was the medium that William James consulted and studied; he believed that she might prove that it was possible to speak to the dead.
Who was Mrs. Piper?
The German psychologist who opened the first laboratory to study psychological phenomena in 1879
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
One of the first 2 perspectives, it advocated for flexibility in research methods, for using methods that fit the thing being studied.
What is Functionalism?
This African American psychologist conducted research on the influence of rapport on children's IQ testing performance and was the first to argue for racial bias in the testing situation as a factor that shaped IQ testing outcomes.
Who was Herman Canady?
According to B.F. Skinner, all learning occurs through operant conditioning and many behaviors are learned when we experience positive consequences for them. Behaviorists call these positive consequences . . .
What are reinforcers?
A member of the Iowa Research Center team during the 1940 IQ debate, she told one member of the Stanford team, "Lewis Terman has poisoned your mind!"
Who was Beth Wellman?
The author of Origin of Species and father of evolutionary theory
Who was Charles Darwin?