Chapter Fourteen Fill in the Blank Flashcards
Michael Faraday developed the first electric generator or
dynamo
In 1879 created a light bulb that glowed for two days before burning out, and this became the new source of light for home, streets, and factories
Thomas Edison
IN 1895 built on the work of earlier scientists and developed a way to send messages through space without wires
Guglielmo Marconi
The development of engines that carried their own energy supply allowed Frank Duryea to build the first successful gasoline-driven in the United States
automobile
The scientific principles that govern the movement of air around objects are called
aerodynamics
Branches of knowledge that scientifically study people as members of society are collectively called the
social sciences
According to , people who acquired wealth and power did so because of their superior abilities, while unfit people remained poor.
social Darwinism
In his book The Golden Bough, compared the customs of different societies and tried to show links between those societies.
James George Frazer
French philosopher argued that sociologists should follow scientific methods by using objective facts, not personal interpretations
Auguste Comte
The process of revealing and analyzing unconscious motivations is called
psychoanalysis
By working with dogs, concluded that human actions are responses to outside stimuli and can be changed by training
Ivan Pavlov
introduced the idea of the unconscious and believed that dreams express one’s unconscious desires or fears
Sigmund Freud
applied Darwin’s theory of natural selection to human societies and coined the phrase survival of the fittest
Herbert Spencer
the application of scientific solutions to industrial problems
led to the creation of new products and materials
