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Titchener discarded aspects of Wundt’s system including _____ . |
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One of Titchener’s most profound influences on the development of experimentation in psychology was his publication of what? |
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Outline of psychology.
1896 |
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What are the two most important contributions of Titchener’s system of modern psychology? |
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His experimental method and a strong position to protest |
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Which of the following wasn’t an essential problem according to structuralism for psychology?
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Reduce conscious processes to their simplest components
Determine laws by which these elements were associated
Connect the elements with their physiological conditions |
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Which of the four fundamental attributes in sensation is missing? |
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Quality/characteristic
Intensity
Duration
Clearness |
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Which of the following works were most influential in the development of functionalism? |
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Darwin and Galton’s comparative |
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| Charles Darwin’s comparative research. |
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On the Origin of Species
1858 |
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| The influence of Charles Darwin can be seen most directly in _____ . |
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The study of animal psychology being vital to human behavior
Emphasis on the functions
Acceptance of Methodology
Focus on description/measurement of individual differences |
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| 20th century american government policy of sterilizing mentally retarded females is an example of _____ . |
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| Who was the first to show that human mental characteristics followed a normal distribution? |
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| Despite Romanes’s deficiencies in methodology, he is respected by scientists for his ______ . |
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| Stimulating the development of comparative psychology |
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Hollerith established his own business the tab. mach. co. What is it’s modern day name?
What year was it made? |
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| Who was the first african american to earn a PHD in psychology? |
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| Who is Mary Whitton Calkins and what was her significance to psychology? |
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First woman to become president of APA.
She was refused her Ph.D.
She overcame prejudices and discrimination and now the majority of people getting Ph.D.’s in psychology are women |
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- Titchener’s form of self-observation
- Observers trained to describe the elements of their conscious state rather than report the familiar name
- Emphasized the parts instead of the whole, unlike Wundt’s
- Similar to Kulpe’s in that, he used detailed, qualitative, subjective reports of subject’s mental activities |
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| Compare and contrast Wundt’s and Titchener’s approaches to psychology. |
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Wundt recognized the elements/contents of consciousness, but was concerned with their organization. He believed the mind had the power to organize mental elements voluntarily.
Titchener focussed on mental elements, believed elements were mechanically linked through association, and discarded Wundt's doctoring of apperception |
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| According to Galton’s research, what was the significance of the phrase “arithmetic by smell?” |
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This was his attempt to count by odors instead of numbers
He was able to forget numbers and their meanings, and learned how to add and subtract by thinking of the odors |
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Define the stream of consciousness.
Who coined the phrase? |
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The idea that consciousness is a flowing process and that any attempt to reduce it to elements will distort it.
William James |
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What is the three part self?
Provide examples of each part. |
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| What was the name of Helen Wooley’s doctoral dissertation? What was it about? When was it written? |
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The Mental Traits of Sex: And Experimental Investigation of the Normal Mind in Men and Women.
The first experimental test of the Darwinian notion that women were biologically inferior to men.
The idea was so widely accepted at the time that it seemed pointless to study.
1903 |
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Define social darwinism.
List an modern illustration of this theory. |
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Applying the theory of evolution to human nature and society
Survival of the fittest. |
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