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| The group intelligence testing of around 2 million army recruits during the First World War |
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| 1. Form of psychology that treats observable behavior as the subject matter of scientific psychology. 2. Form of ___ developed by John B. Watson, who saw psychology as a positivist science restricted to the correlation of observable stimuli and responses, and rejected mentalistic explanations of behavior. |
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| Supreme Court case in which Carrie Buck's appeal against compulsory sterilization was denied. |
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| Committee for the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness |
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| Committee established in 1914 whose members recommended the compulsory sterilization of mental defectives. |
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| An originally innate reflexive response that has come to function as a conditioned response through the repeated pairing of the originally eliciting stimulus with a neutral stimulus, which then comes to function as a conditioned stimulus. |
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| Term employed by Thorndike to describe his theory of trial-and-error learning, in terms of automatic connections between situations and responses. |
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| The tendency of any strong stimulus to elicit a conditioned response after some time has passed since extinction |
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| The attenuation of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Form of psychology concerned with the functions of consciousness for adaptive behavior and associated with approaches to psychology developed at the University of Chicago and Columbia University |
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| Measure introduced by Lewis Terman, defined as Stern's mental quotient (the ratio of mental age to chronological age) multiplied by 100. |
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| According to Thorndike, the strength of a connection between a response and situation increases as a function of the vigor and duration of the connection. |
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| As defined by Henry Goddard, an adult with a mental age between 8 and 12 (with an IQ between 50 and 70) |
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| Congressional act of 1924 that restricted U.S. immigration to nationality quotas based upon the 1890 census. |
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| National Research Council |
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| National body formed in 1916 to administer governmental-funded natural science research projects. |
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| National Intelligence Test |
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| Group test of intelligence sponsored by the National Research Council and administered to over 7 million children in the 1920s. |
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| Form of behaviorist psychology originally developed by Edward C. Tolman and Clark L. Hull, which treated observable behavior as the subject matter of scientific psychology, but recognized the legitimacy of mentalistic explanations of behavior. |
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| Philosophical theory that held that consciousness and cognition are best explicated in terms of behavioral adjustments to the environment. |
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| practice theory of reaction time |
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| Theory of Baldwin and Cattell that motor reaction times are often longer than sensory reaction times and that there are significant individual differences in both sensory and motor reaction times that are a product of differences in practice and attention. |
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| Form of behaviorism developed by B.F.Skinner and his followers, which treated observable behavior as the subject matter of scientific psychology, but rejected mentalistic explanations of behavior. |
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| The tendency of a conditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response after extinction |
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| State laws passed in the early decades of the 20th century licensing the compulsory sterilization of the feebleminded. |
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| type theory of reaction time |
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| Theory of Wundt and Titchener that sensory reaction times are longer than motor reaction times. |
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