Test 1

Question 1

What do philosophy and psychology have in common?

Answer 1

They have a lot of the same philosophers and ideas. Psychology derived from philosophy.

Question 2

How is psychology different from philosophy?

Answer 2

Philosophy can’t be proven but psychology can

Question 3

What does psychology borrow from science?

Answer 3

Experiments and a way of thinking.

Question 4

Experimentalism

Answer 4

Practice of conducting studies

Question 5

Reductionism

Answer 5

Understand by breaking into parts.

Question 6

Determinism

Answer 6

Everything is casually determined.

Question 7

Descartes used science to seek knowledge as opposed to…

Answer 7

Religion

Question 8

Descartes applied methods of ____ to determine laws of human nature

Answer 8

Mathematics

Question 9

Which was the chief influence before Descartes: mind or body?

Answer 9

Mind

Question 10

What was Descartes view of the mind-body problem called?

Answer 10

Dualism

Question 11

What gives the mind influence over the body?

Answer 11

Free will

Question 12

What did Descartes contribute to localization of function?

Answer 12

Paneal gland

Question 13

The body operates according to involuntary…

Answer 13

Reflex.

Question 14

Innate ideas

Answer 14

Ideas we’re born with. (Breathing)

Question 15

Derived ideas

Answer 15

Influenced from other ideas. (Pencil)

Question 16

Blank slate

Answer 16

Mind is a blank page

Question 17

Empiricism

Answer 17

The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge

Question 18

Where do ideas come from?

Answer 18

Experience

Question 19

What 2 processes do ideas come from?

Answer 19

Sensation and reflection

Question 20

How do we form complex ideas?

Answer 20

Through association of simpler ideas

Question 21

Distinction between primary and secondary qualities.

Answer 21

Primary can’t be deceived.

Secondary can be deceived.

Question 22

What was Muller’s doctrine of specific nerve energies?

Answer 22

Different sensory nerves carry different energies.

Question 23

What is Gall’s science of phrenology?

Answer 23

Study of bumps on heads

Question 24

What is Flourens’ challenge to phrenology through extirpation?

Answer 24

No proof of localization of function. Took out parts of birds brains

Question 25

What is Broca's contribution to localization of function?

Answer 25

Clinical method: predicted damage in a specific location.

Question 26

Explain Helmholtz materialistic approach

Answer 26

All things are the result of material interactions

Question 27

Explain Helmholtz mechanical approach

Answer 27

Body is a machine

Question 28

What areas did Helmholtz study?

Answer 28

Nerve impulses, heat related to food, and color vision

Question 29

What was Helmholtz position on reaction times?

Answer 29

Speed of nerve impulses is not instantaneous. 90 ft per second

Question 30

What is psychophysics?

Answer 30

The study of the relation between mental and physical processes

Question 31

What did Weber mean by just noticeable difference?

Answer 31

The smallest difference between weights that could be detected.

Question 32

What was Fetchners contribution to psychophysics?

Answer 32

He quantified the relationship between mind and body.

Question 33

Wundt' approach to mental studies is known as...

Answer 33

Volunteerism: when the mind actively organizes content.

Question 34

The object of study in psychology was ____, and it was studied using the method of _____.

Answer 34

Consciousness; introspection

Question 35

What did Wundt's "cultural psychology" refer to? How was it studied?

Answer 35

Higher mental processes; can't be studied experimentally, conditioned by language and culture.

Question 36

How did Ebbinghaus prove Wundt wrong?

Answer 36

He measured learning and forgetting using a forgetting curve. Wundt said it couldn't be measured.

Question 37

What did Ebbinghaus study? Why did he use nonsense syllables?

Answer 37

Studied learning. They were free of association.

Question 38

What was Brantano's system of psychology called?

Answer 38

Act psychology

Question 39

How was Brantano's act psychology different from Wundt's cultural psychology?

Answer 39

Brentano said that the mind points to something outside itself or intentionally.

Question 40

Julie challenged Wundt through his research on...

Answer 40

Systematic experimental introspection

Question 41

How was Titchner's approach different from Wundt's?

Answer 41

Mechanistic view vs. Wundt's volunteerism

Question 42

What is the stimulus error?

Answer 42

Confusing mental processes with stimulus or objects

Question 43

What was Margret Floy Washburn?

Answer 43

First female Ph.D