Details Title: Abnormal Description: Test 1 Total Flash Cards: 27 Created: 09/21/2009 13:53:30		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Psychology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Des Cartes Definition Analysis of consciousness innate ideas are a prereq for learning new ideas Term Hobbes Definition Built of Des Cartes have a bunch of innate ideas that we then associate together to form knowledge behavior is guided by appetites and aversions Term Associationist impircist school Definition Groups of ideas bond together into associations, learn to predict situations, born with no innate knowledge Term Rationalist School Definition Sensing and knowing was innate, the rest was learned wolf first to use term psychology in publication Term Naturalist school Definition Gaulds and spersine attempted to map parts of the brain that have certain faculties, such as anger center. Known as phrenology, failed Term Hebart Definition Concepts that do not conflict can sit together in the brain, but concepts that conflict can not. The weaker concept will be pushed out by the stronger one. Term Weber Definition Measured sensation of touch, came up with first quantitative rule of psychology. equal relative increases of stimuli are proportional to equal relative increments of sensation Term William James Definition First american psychologist Term Wundt Definition First Psychology lab in germany founded psychology as a science Term Hall Definition First psychology lab in america at hopkins founded american journal of psychology founded american psychology association and was elected president Term Catel Definition First professor of psychology at penn Term 1890 Definition william james wrote principles of psychology Term Fechner Definition Concept of noticable difference, any notable difference in sensation was equal to last increment needed to feel difference was a subjective unit of measurement, which is still widely used today Term Darwin Definition Natural selection, evolution opened door as a way to study animal behavior with relationship to humans Term Bane Definition Journal called mind Term Galton Definition first to use statistics, tried to prove superior intelligence was inquired Term Pinel Definition First to investigate insanity from a scientific approach Term Charcot Definition Theory that the mind can cause conditions that look like neurological disorders, but truly are not, such a blindness or paralysis. Originally thought abnormal state had to be physical-somatogenic, then switched to psychogenic Term Studes Definition Hypnotized female to display abnormal symptoms, then she woke up and was fine Term Freud Definition Studies in hysteria, unconscious conflict causes disorders that may look neurological Term Kraepelin Definition Said there were no psychological disorders, first to write comprehensive book on insanity Term General paresis Definition saw a person completely fall apart because of syphillis thought is was proof that all psychological problems stem from physical Term Functionalism Definition Figure out how consciousness works and what purpose it serves, behavior is because of environment, need to go beyond introspection and see behavior as a way to adapt Term Cattell Definition introduced mental tests Term Structuralism Definition Thought we should I.D. mental elements that made up complex psychological experiences such as reasoning and fear Term Titchner Definition Psychology should stay a pure science, wanted to describe contents of the mind like we describe contents of the body Term WWII Definition Birth of applied psychology PTSS