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who came up with "mental Inheritance" and what is it?
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Francis Galton
assumed that intelligence is passed odwn through genetics and that we should use Eugenics to only progress good human qualities |
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What caused people to begin paying attention to animal psychology?
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Darwins theory of evolution
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How might animal psychology be helpful?
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it may answer some questions as to how humans work as well
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what is the Law of Parsimony and who came up with it?
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animal functions must not be attributed to a higher mental process when it can be explained by a lower mental process.
Lloyd Morgan |
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According to James, what is the three part self?
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Material
Social Spiritual |
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what was and Who contested the Variablility hypotesis?
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Mary Whiton Calkins contested the idea that men showed greater variability in physical and mental abilities
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Who had the first American Doctoral Degree in Psychology?
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Granville Stanley Hall
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what is practical orientation?
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applying psychology to educational and philosophical problems
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who came up with practical orientation?
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John Dewey
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What is the Final form of functionalism and who came up with it?
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Harvey A. Carr:
Defined the dubject matter of psychology as "mental activity" (memory, perception, feeling, imagination, judgement and will) |
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According to Carr whats the function of mental activity?
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to acquire, fixate, retain, organize and eveluate experiences to determine ones actions
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What is "The Bell Curve"?
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a book written by Richard J Hernstein
argued that based on intelligence test scores, blacks are inferior to whites in intelligence |
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Who began the clinical psycholigist movement?
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Lightner Wither
Started te worlds first psyche clinic, wanted to assess and treat learning and behaviorally troubled school children |
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What event led to a huge growth in clinical psychology in America and why?
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America got into WWII in 1941
many draftees had severe anxiety, depression, antisocial demeanors, uncontrolled anger |
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Who is Lilliam Gilbreth?
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Wrote the book Cheaper by the Dozen
her and her husband Walter Dill Scott helped kick off I/O psychology |
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what were the Hawthorne studies?
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studied people doing mindless tasks and figured out ways to increase prductivity.
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Who was Hugo Munsterberg?
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interested in forensic psychology: crime prevention, how to questions suspects, mental tests to detect guilt, etc.
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Which branch of psychology became more respected after the World Wars?
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Applied psychology
people began to thinks psychologists could fix and sell anything, there was an increasing demand to fix real-world problems |
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Who is John B. Watson?
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Founded behaviorism (did not originate it)
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What were Watsons believes about psychology as a science?
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mental or psychic concepts had no place in psychology as a science
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What did Watson believe he could do with children?
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Watson beleived children could be made to do anything and be anything if trained the right way
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Why was there an "outbreak" of psychology in the 1920's?
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general public was convinced that psycology was the road to health, happiness and prosperity
it also taugt people how to explore their own minds |
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what are the 3 primary learned reactions?
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Fear
Rage Love |
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where did Watson think he could measure thought process from?
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VoiceBox
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what are the two principles that Karl Lashley is famous for?
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Law of Mass action
Principle of equipotentiality |
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who was known for being a forceful opponent of Watson and believed that we have innate tendencies?
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William McDougal
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