Test 2

Question 1

Hereditary Genius

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The first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness

Question 2

Eugenics

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The set of beliefs that aim to improve the genetic quality of human evolution

Question 3

Stream of Consciousness

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The flow of thought in the conscious mind

Question 4

James-Lange view of emotion

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Emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions to events

Question 5

APA

Answer 5

GS Hall founded This in 1892

Question 6

Reflex arc

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Neural pathway that controls a reflex

Question 7

Stanford Binet

Answer 7

An individually administered intelligence test

Question 8

Suggestibility in advertising

Answer 8

Operant factor in advertising

Question 9

Drive reduction

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Created by Clark Hull, first theory of motivation

Question 10

Operant conditioning

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Learning process through which behavior is modified by reward or punishment

Question 11

Schedules of reinforcement

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Continuous: occurs when reinforcement is delivered after every single behavior

Intermittent: delivered after some behaviors but not each one

Question 12

Behavior modification

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The treatment approach that focused on changing behavior, created by Skinner

Question 13

Vicarious reinforcement

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Our tendency to repeat behaviors for which others are being rewarded

Question 14

Rotter

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Guy who created the 13-item questionnaire called ‘locus of control’

Question 15

Locus of control

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The degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of their life events

Question 16

Comparative Psych

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Study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals

Question 17

Applied Psych

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The use of methods and findings of scientific psychology to solve practical problems of human and animal behavior

Question 18

Dev. Psych.

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The study of the psychological growth of humans

Question 19

Industrial/organizational Psych

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Applies psychological theories and principles to organizations

Question 20

Forensic Psych

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The interaction of the practice of psychology and law

Question 21

Clinical Psych

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The branch of Psych concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness and disability

Question 22

C Lloyd Morgan

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Law of parsimony: don’t explain behavior by higher processes if it can be simpler

Question 23

George Romanes

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Animal intelligence

Question 24

Charles Darwin

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Evolution

Question 25

Wallace

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Evolution by natural selection

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Galton

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Individual differences | Wealthy genius, cousin of Darwin

Question 27

Cattell

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Coined the term “mental test” | First professorship in Psych in world 1888 at university of Pennsylvania

Question 28

William James

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Philosopher of pragmatism | Neurasthenia: determinism and free will

Question 29

GS Hall

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Promoter of Psych John Hopkins: first psych lab 1883 American journal of Psych 1887

Question 30

Helen Thompson Woolley

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Mental traits of sex 1903 | No significant difference between sexes

Question 31

Francis Cecil Sumner

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First black PhD in Psych | Chair of Psych at Howard uni in 1920

Question 32

John Dewey

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Criticized analyzing behavior in reflexes | Reflex arc

Question 33

Alfred Binet

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Developed first intelligence test

Question 34

Louis B Terman

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Stanford-Binet | Intelligence Quotient

Question 35

Henry Goddard

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Tested immigrants at Ellis Island

Question 36

Lighter Witmer

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First psychology clinic | Clinic for child evolution, not therapy

Question 37

Walter Dill Scott

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Industrial organizational Psych. | Personnel selection in military 1917

Question 38

John Watson

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Founded behaviorism | Became youngest PhD from Chicago

Question 39

Loeb

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German zoologist | Studied tropisms

Question 40

Thorndike

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Studied chickens in mazes by staking book | Studied under James at Harvard

Question 41

Bekhterev

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Studied motor reflexes

Question 42

Mary Cover Jones

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1924, de conditioned fear of rabbits in 3 yo boy “little peter”

Question 43

Karl Lashley

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Brain mechanisms and intelligence

Question 44

William McDougall

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Replaced Munsterberg as chair of Harvard Psych department

Question 45

Functionalism

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System of Psych concerned with the mind as it is used in an organisms adaptation to its environment

Question 46

Social Darwinism

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Evolution=progress | Intelligence=adaptation

Question 47

Determinism

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The doctrine that acts are determined by past events

Question 48

Pragmatism

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The doctrine that the validity of ideas is measured by their practical consequences

Question 49

Behaviorism

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Watson’s science of behavior, which dealt solely with observable behavioral acts that could be described in objective terms

Question 50

Tropism

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An involuntary forced movement

Question 51

Associationism

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The notion that knowledge results from linking or associating simple ideas to form complex ones

Question 52

Operationism

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The doctrine that a physical concept can be defined in precise terms related to the set of operations by which it is determined

Question 53

Purposive behaviorism

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Talman’s system combining the objective study of behavior with the consideration of purposiveness or goal orientation in behavior

Question 54

Law of effect

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Action followed by satisfier is associated with the situation, more likely to recur

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Law of exercise

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Use: strengthens connections with practice Disuse: weakens connections with disuse

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Uquipotentiality

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One part of cortex is equal to another in learning

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Eugenics

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Applied evolution

Question 58

Army alpha

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Literate

Question 59

Army Beta

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Illiterate