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21 Cards in this Set
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synthetic philosophy |
concept that evolution applies to all human knowledge and experiences |
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Mary Whiton Calkins |
1st female president of the APA |
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1883 |
the year America's first experimental psych lab opened |
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1887 |
the year the 1st American Psychological Journal was published |
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Herbert Spencer |
coined the term survival of the fittest |
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Samuel Butler |
extended theory of evolution to machines |
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William James |
studied art, chemistry, biology, and graduated from Harvard. Opened first demonstration lab at Harvard |
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Alcohol and Chloroform |
main ingredients in Americanitis Elixir |
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Stream of Consciousness |
Continuous flowing process that cannot be reduced |
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Francis Cecil Sumner |
1st African American to receive a PhD in Psychology |
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Recapitulation |
psychological developmental stages repeat the evolution of the human race |
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George Romanes |
One of Darwin's many friends, the one he gave his prized notebooks. Lab in own home, developed an anecdotal method to see how animals compare to people, published animal intelligence the first book on comparative psychology |
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C. Lloyd Morgan |
Helped develop the law of Parsimony |
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Francis Galton |
Focused on individual differences and inherited characteristics and inherited characteristics, coining the term eugenics and invented the first intelligence tests |
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FitzRoy |
Captain of the HMS Beagle who set out to prove biblical principles with naturalism by studying plants and animals |
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Wallace |
Came up with theory similar to Darwin, but by compiling other peoples work instead of research |
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Henslow |
Botanist and naturalist that could have been Darwin |
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Huxley |
Biologist who defended Darwin's work at the British Association for Advancement of Science after is was first presented and resented. |
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Lamarck |
Came before Darwin and saw the beginnings of comparative biology in observing changes in species of fossils that changed over time |
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Darwin |
Did poorly in school as a child, hypochondriac, most famous for study of finches beaks on the Galapagos Islands and the book Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection |
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1890 |
year that William James' book is published |
