1. Two major influences on Freud were Josef Breuer and Jean Charcot. Josef Breuer was a well-known neurologist and was known at the time for being able to treat hysteria successfully. He had a patient who they called “Anna O” who he diagnosed with hysterical neurosis. Breuer helped relieve those symptoms by using hypnosis, which would help her recall some past memories and then they could discuss them. He labeled this technique as the “talking cure.” Freud was fascinated by the case of Anna O. and this is where the beginning of his interest in hysteria and hypnosis originated and his idea of psychoanalysis. Freud started studying under the famous neurologist Jean Charcot at the time and was greatly influenced by his theories. Charcot studied
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He thought you were either born with a good memory or you were not, and there was really nothing you could do to improve it. This theory was wrong. He developed the theory of emotion, which argued that emotions are physiological reactions. He said that when people experience an event, the event causes a psychological change, which we then associate as an emotion. William James’ theories were on the right track and he influenced other people to take the ideas and go further and modify …show more content…
Henry Goddard wanted to populate the United States with intelligent and successful people and to keep “defective” people and their genes out. The public had come to the conclusion that immigrants coming from Ellis Island were mentally defective people and that something needed to be done. Goddard set up psychological methods to screen the immigrants before entering and, not surprising, the number of the “feeble-minded” increased dramatically. He concluded that majority of Jews, Hungarians, Italians and Russians were feeble-minded. His findings were consistent with the beliefs at the time because it was thought that these “defective” genes were genetic and could be passed on and this is what the public believed. When they were doing the psychological testing on the immigrants going through Ellis Island, they did not consider the cultural differences or language barriers that would obviously play a huge
He thought you were either born with a good memory or you were not, and there was really nothing you could do to improve it. This theory was wrong. He developed the theory of emotion, which argued that emotions are physiological reactions. He said that when people experience an event, the event causes a psychological change, which we then associate as an emotion. William James’ theories were on the right track and he influenced other people to take the ideas and go further and modify …show more content…
Henry Goddard wanted to populate the United States with intelligent and successful people and to keep “defective” people and their genes out. The public had come to the conclusion that immigrants coming from Ellis Island were mentally defective people and that something needed to be done. Goddard set up psychological methods to screen the immigrants before entering and, not surprising, the number of the “feeble-minded” increased dramatically. He concluded that majority of Jews, Hungarians, Italians and Russians were feeble-minded. His findings were consistent with the beliefs at the time because it was thought that these “defective” genes were genetic and could be passed on and this is what the public believed. When they were doing the psychological testing on the immigrants going through Ellis Island, they did not consider the cultural differences or language barriers that would obviously play a huge