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What do psychologists use to diagnose psychological disorders? |
The DSM-5. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition. |
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Who is Dorothea Dix? |
She pioneered for moral treatment after visiting a prison in 1841. Over the next 40 years she opened 30 homes throughout North America. |
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Who is Emil Kraepelin? |
A German psychiatrist who began systematically classifying and diagnosing mental disorders in the 1880s or 1890s. |
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Define Psychoanalysis. |
A clinically-based form of therapy developed by Sigmund Freud that assumes the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior. |
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Define Empiricism. |
Established by John Locke; The view that all knowledge and thought comes from experience. |
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Who is John Locke? |
He established Empiricism and argued that the mind is a blank slate at birth upon which experience writes. |
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Define Psychophysics. |
The study of how how people psychologically perceive physical stimuli. Developed by Ernest Weber and Gustav Fechner. |
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Who is Ernest Weber? |
He conducted some of the first research in perception and laid the groundwork for psychophysics. He investigated the smallest change in weight or length that people could discern. |
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Who is Gustav Fechner? |
He had the sudden realization that one could study the psychological and physical worlds and coined the term Psychophysics. |
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Who is Herman von Helmholtz? |
He designed a working telephone years before Alexander Graham Bell and was the first to calculate the speed of a nerve impulse at about 90ft per second. |
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt? |
Established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. He began applying the scientific methods of physiology and physics to questions of philosophy. |
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What are 5 facts about G. Stanley Hall? |
1. He earned the first PhD in psychology in the US in 1878. 2. He was William James's student. 3. He opened the first psychological laboratory in the US at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. 4. He founded the American Psychological Association (APA) and became its first president in 1892. 5. He started the first scientific journal in psychology in America: The American Journal of Psychology. |
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Who earned the first PhD in psychology in the U.S. in 1878? |
G. Stanley Hall |
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Who opened the first psychology laboratory in the U.S. and where was it at? |
G. Stanley Hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. |
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Who founded the American Psychological Association (APA)? |
G. Stanley Hall |
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Who was the American Psychological Association's first president in 1892? |
G. Stanley Hall |
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Who started the American Journal of Psychology? |
G. Stanley Hall |
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Who established Empiricism? |
John Locke |
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Who began systematically classifying and diagnosing psychological disorders in the 1880s and 1890s? |
Emil Kraeplin |
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Who developed Psychoanalysis? |
Sigmund Freud |
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Who established Psychophysics? |
Ernest Weber and Gustav Fechner. |
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Who designed a working telephone before Alexander Graham Bell? |
Herman von Helmholtz |
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Who was the first to calculate the speed of a nerve impulse at 90ft per second? |
Herman von Helmholtz |
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Who is Francis Cecil Sumner? |
The first African American to earn a PhD in psychology (1920). Studied under G. Stanley Hall. |
