Unit 1 Module 1: Names and Ideas

Question 1

Buddha

Answer 1

questioned how sensations and perceptions combine to form ideas

Question 2

Confucious

Answer 2

questioned how the power of ideas and an educated mind

Question 3

Aristotle

Answer 3

knowledge is not preexisting, mind grows from experience

Question 4

Socrates and Plato

Answer 4

mind is separable from body and continues after the body dies, knowledge is innate

Question 5

Descartes

Answer 5

agreed with Socrates and Plato, existence of innate ideas and minds being
- was correct that nerve paths are important and enable reflexes

Question 6

Bacon

Answer 6

• one of the founders of modern science

- more down to earth form, centered on experiment, experience and common sense knowledge

Question 7

Wundt

Answer 7

• established the first psych lab
• “atoms of the mind”
• psychology: structuralism, functionalism and behaviorism

Question 8

Titchener

Answer 8

• introduced structuralism
• aimed to find strucutal events in the mind
• self- reflective introspection

Question 9

James

Answer 9

assumed that thinking and other senses developed because it was adaptive

Question 10

Calkins

Answer 10

• feminist psychologist

- experimental psychologist: explore behavior using experiments