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Wilhelm wundt

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father of experimental psych

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who published principles of physiology psychology (1874)

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Wilhelm wundt

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Principles of physiology psychology

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how the scientific methods of physiology could be applied to the study of conciousness

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What was significant in 1879

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in 1879 the first psychology lab at university of leipzig

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Leipzig University

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is considered the birth of science and psychology

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Who established the first experimental psychology journal: philosophical studies (1881)

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Wilhelm Wundt

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What topics did wundt study with his students?

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His students could all study multiple topics, color vision and tone perception

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Brass Instrument Psychology

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was used when stimuli were presented and responses were recorded by mechanical means

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What mechanical means are used in brass instrument psychology?

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Tachistoscope, rotating memory drum and gravity chronometer

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NO

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NO

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Experimental self observation

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trained observers present stimulus, observers self report what experienced , over trials with changing stimuli

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Reaction time method

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measure the speed of certain mental events by measuring reaction time and substracting out the time for sensory and motor components

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Voïkerpsychologie (1900)

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10 volume text by wundt

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What was Voïkerpsychologie about?

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understanding of humanity was obtained by studying how people interact w/ each other in social, cultural, historical contexts

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What research was included in Voïkerpsychologie?

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Language, mythology, customs

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Who were wundts students

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James Cattell, Hugo Munsterberg

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James M Cattell (1860-1944)

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known for bringing experimental methods from germany to u.s

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who pionerred the field of mental testing?

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James Cattell

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Who returned to the U.S and estsblished a psychology lab at columbia university?

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James Cattell

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Who coined the term “mental test”

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James Cattell

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Who was the editor of science

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James Cattell, he added psychology when publishing a journal for science

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Who founded the psychological review journal?

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James Cattell

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Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

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Student of james cattell, founded the first psychological clinic in the world at the university of pennsylvania (1896)

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What did the first psychological clinic consist of?

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working with learning disabilities, speech, behavioral issues

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Who is the founder of clinical psych and school psych
Lightner Witmer
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Who started a journal devoted to clinical work?
Lightner Witmer, The psychological clinic (1907)
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Hugo Munsterberg (1863-1916)
wundt student, attended harvard to help cattell
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Who was a pioneer in applied psychology?
Hugo Munsterberg
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who was involed in forensic psych and industrial and organizational psych
hugo munsterberg
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Forensic psych (munsterberg)
wrote on the witness stand, fallibility of memory, reliability of witnessed and methods of jury persuaion
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Who invented an early polygraph device?
Hugo Munsterberg
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Industrial and Organizational Psych (hugo munsterberg)
wrote psychology and industrial efficiency, believed the more efficient you were the better the job would be
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Who was branded a spy for Germany in WW1 and believed Germany was better than U.S
Hugo Munsterberg
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Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927) | mr. structuralist
wrote the experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice: 4 volumes
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What are the four volumes in a manual of laboratory practice?
2 were on quantitative research, the other 2 were on qualitative research
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Who was the chair of the society of experiemental psychologists?
Edward Titchener
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What club was Titchener in that did not allow women to join?
The experimentalists
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Who was the founder of school of structuralism
Titchiner
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Structuralism
Discovering the structure of the adult, normally functioning, human mind, described mental experiences by breaking down consciousness into basic components
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Universal Elements
sensations, images and affections
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Systematic Introspection
reporting sensory experiences in controlled experimental conditions
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Stimulus Error
is the error of describing the object of perception instead of the conscious experience of that object
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Differences between wundt and titchiner
Wundt trued to explain conscious experience | Titchiner wanted to describe elements of consciousness
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Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) titchiner student
First woman PhD in psychology in U.S
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Who was a pioneer in animal research?
Margaret Washburn
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Who wrote the book on comparitive psychology, animal minds (1908)
Margaret Washburn
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Who was the second APA president in 1921
Margaret Washburn
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Who used introspection by analogy as research method
Margaret Washburn
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Edwin boring (1886-1968)
Noted historian of psychology, wrote history of experimental psychology
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Who was very devoted to titchiner
Edwin boring was his student and very devoted
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June Etta Downey (1875-1932)
First woman chair of a psychology department (1915)
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What was June Downeys research on?
Relationship between handwriting and personality
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Functionalism
understanding how consciousness/ mental processes enabled the organism to interact with and adapt to its enviornment and survive
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William James (1842-1910)
Harvard philosophy; self taught himself psychology,
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Who wrote a two volume book on principle of psychology 1890?
William James
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What were william james interests?
concept of stream of consciousness, selective attention is an important aspect of consciousness
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James-Lange theory (william james)
the idea that emotional experience is an interpretation of bodily arousal within a given situation
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Mary Calkins (1863-1930)
First female president of the APA, she never recieved her PhD from harvard
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Who established the first psychology lab at wellesley college by a woman?
Mary Calkins
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Who invented the paired-associates task?
Mary Calkins
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self-psychology
proper subject of psychology is study of our conscious selves
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Robert Yerkes (1876-1956)
A pioneer in the fields of comparitive psychology and intelligence testing
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Who did robert yerkes study?
He studied gorillas social behavior and nervous system of jelly fish
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Who guided the development of Army Alpha and Army Beta tests in WW1?
Robert Yerkes
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How was the Army Alpha and Beta tests administered?
They are group adminstered to assign military rank to men based on test results
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What was the lowest score on Army Alpha and Beta Tests
E is lowest, A/B are high scores
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G stanley hall (1844-1924)
pioneered developmental psychology, especially adolescence
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Who was the father of Adolescence Psychology
G. Stanley Hall
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Who developed child study movement reform
G. Stanley Hall
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Child study movement reform
engaged in theory free data collection survey studies, not hypothesis testing with experiments
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Lewis Terman (1877-1956)
Popularized the use of intelligence tests by revising the standford-binet
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Who performed landmark longitudinal studies on gifted children 1921?
Lewis Terman, children were called termites
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What was termites average IQ?
150
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Yujiro Motora (1858-1912)
First Japanese to earn his PhD at an American University
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Who returned to japan and established japans first psychology lab?
Yujiro Motora
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What was Yujiro Motora interested in?
the process of attention, started a clinic in tokyo for underachieving children
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Who nurtured many graduate students in Japan?
Yujiro Motora formed the first generation of experimental psychologists in Japan
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Francis Cecil Sumner (1895-1954)
first african american man to earn a PhD in psychology (1920)
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Who was known as the father of black psychology and studied race psychology
Francis Sumner
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James Rowland Angell (1869-1949) | John Dewey
were founders of school of functionalism
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NO
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Helen Thompson Wolley (1874-1947)
early american psychologist who made contributions to psychology of women and children
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Who published the first systematic study of gender differences?
Helen Woolley
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The mental traits of sex by woolley
25 male/ 25 female (giving them tests on motor capability) no sex differences were found
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Who led changes in laws on child labor?
Helen Woolley
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Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)
pionerred learning theory and educational psychology
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What did thorndike study?
Puzzle box and the law of effect
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Robert Woodworth (1869-1962)
proposed dynamic psychology which emphasized the role of motivation in behavior
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Who wrote 2 tests who introduced IV and Dv along with correlations and experiments
Robert Woodworth
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Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939)
worked with gifted children, known for studies on the psychology of women and giftrf children
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Who described the myths associated with menstruation cycles?
Leta Hollingworth
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Who coined the term "gifted"
Leta Hollingworth
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Inez Prosser (1897-1934)
first african-american woman to earn a doctorate in psychology (1933)
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Who found that when african americans are with other african americans have fewer psychological emotional issues
Inez Prosser
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Ruth Howard (1900-1997)
The second african-american woman to recieve a PhD in psychology (1934)
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who studied nature and nurture on triplets?
Ruth Howard

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