HistoryofPsych Flashcards
Rationalism
Socrates
-we acquire knowled by thinking abt the world rationally.
Idealism
Plato
-We acquire knowledge with our senses but our sensory input is imperfect.
Empiricism
Aristotle
-We learn by observing.
Vegetative Soul
Aristotle
-It only has the ability to reproduction and nourishment.
Sensitive Soul
Aristotle
-It has imagination,creativity…
Rational Soul
Aristotle
-It has the ability to logical reasoning. (which only humans have)
Noumenal World
Kant
-The world that is outside of our experience.
Phenemonal World
Kant
-The world we experience.
Internal Senses
Avicenna
-Avicenna extended Aristotles theory of knowledge coming from outside. He said we also have our internal senses.
Inituitive Knowledge
John Locke
-The knowledge we get without being consciously aware we learning.
Demonstrative Knowledge
John Locke
-The knowledge we can explain like mat equasitions.
Sensitive Knowledge
John Locke
-The knowledge we get by interacting with the world.
Structualism
Edward Titchener
-If we feel smth than it is true.
Law of Spesific Nerve Enegry
Muller
-Each nerve has a spesific task.
Vitalism
Muller
-There is a vital energy that distunguishes the living from non-living.
Directed Association
Kulpe
-Relationship between two things that one variable is directly associated with the other.
Imageless thoughts
Kulpe
Mental Sets
Kulpe
-Habitual ways of thinking.
Dualism
Descartes
-We can doubt everything but we cannot doubt that there is someone who is doing the doubting.
Primary Qualities
Descardes
-The things outside of us that are true like shape,motion.
Secondary Qualities
Descartes
-About the way we experience the world.
Animal Spirits
Descartes
-The fluid that is inside of our nerves.
Acquired Knowledge
Descartes
Like riding a bike or playing an instrument. Muscle Memory kinda.
Mechanistic Physiology
Descardes
Just Noticable Difference
Fechner
-The minimum stimulu between 2 variables for us the notice the difference.
Absolute Treshold
Fechner
-The minimum stimulu for us to actually be able to feel smth.
Psychophysics
Fechner
Perceptial Adaptation
Helmholtz
-We adapt to our environment.
Unconscious Inference
Helmholtz
-We automaticly think about the world rationally.
Visual Cliff
Helmholtz
Pantheism
Leibniz
-God is everything.
Bare Monad
Leibniz
-It reacts to stimuli but is not aware.
Sentient Monad
Leibniz
-It can see so its aware.
Rational Monad
Leibniz
-Perception and apperception.
Supreme Monad
Leibniz
-God is aware of everything.
Minute Observations
Leibniz
-Like we watch smth but at the same time ur body is processes things like food…
Nonsense Syllabells
Ebbinghaus
Forgetting Curves
Ebbinghaus
-How long it takes to forget a word.
Personal Equations
Wundt
-Everyone observes the reality in a different speed.
Mental Chronometry
Wundt
-Everyone acquire info in a different speed.
Substractive Method
Wundt
-How long it takes to do a task.
Psychich Causation
Wundt
-Mental events could influence physical world.
Creative Synthesis
Wundt
-Combining smth that has never been combined before.
Introspection
Wundt
-Ones own mental Processes.
Heritability of Charasteristics
Charles Darwin
-If i have a certain charasteristics, my child will have it too.
Polygenesis
Charles Darwin
-Every race has a seperate ancestor.
Monogenesis
Charles Darwin
-Everyone has the same ancestor.
Sexual Selection
Charles Darwin
-Selection of charasteristics in favor of reproductional success.
Variation Hypothesis
Charles Darwin
-Natural selectin works better on men than woman.