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History of Psychology
Exam 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/17/2006

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George John Romanes
Definition
1848-1894
Anecdotal Method
Introspection by analogy
Mental Ladder: arrayed the various animal species in the order of their degree of mental functioning.
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C. Lloyd Morgan
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1852-1936
Law of Parsimony: the notion that animal behavior must not be attributed to a higher mental process when it can be explained in terms of a lower mental process.
-First scientist to conduct large-scale experimental studies in animal psychology.
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Social Darwinism/Synthetic Philosophy
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Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism: belief that development in all areas of human knowledge/exp. is governed by laws of evolution.
Synthetic Philosophy: knowledge/ experience can be experienced in terms of evolutionary principles.
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William James
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1842-1910
Anticipator of Functional Psychology
Neurasthenia
Stream of Consciousness
Pragmatism
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Mary Whiton Calkins
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1863-1930
1st woman pres. of APA
Variability Hypothesis
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Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley
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1874-1947
She administered a battery of tests to 25 male and 25 female subjects to measure motor abilities, sensory thresholds , intellectual abilitie, and personality traits.
No sex differences in emotional functioning.
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Leta Stetter Hollingworth
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1886-1939
Conducted extensive empirical research on variability hypothesis.
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Reflex Arc
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The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses.
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Reflex Arc
Definition
The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses
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Reflex Arc
Definition
The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses
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Reflex Arc
Definition
The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses
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Titchener's Structuralism
Definition
-conscious experience as dependent on the experiencing person.
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