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GRE Psychology: History

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1. Descartes - mind is a nonphysical substance that is separate from the body






2. Felt Freud over-emphasized sexual instinct; analytic psychology (metaphysical and mythological components - collective unconscious and unconscious archetypes; autobiography (Memories - Dreams - Reflections)






3. Tolman; learning is acquired through meaningful behaviour towards a goal; sign learning






4. Leader of humanistic psychology; examined normal or optimal functioning rather than abnormal; hierarchy of needs; people inherently strive for self-improvement






5. Studied Thorndike and Watson; Skinner box - operant conditioning; Walden Two and beyond freedom and dignity - control of human behaviour






6. Digestion - classical conditioning






7. World'S first professor - studied based on order and logic - disagreed with Plato - believed that truth can be found in physical world






8. A plan for selective human breeding to strengthen species






9. Existential psychology; Man'S Search for Meaning - people innately seek meaningfulness in their lives - perceived meaninglessness is root of emotional difficulty; logotherapy






10. One of most important in clinical - abnormal - personality - id - ego - superego; unconscious motivations; psychoanalysis; famous writings Interpretation of Dreams - Theory of Sexuality - Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Civilization and its Disconten






11. One of America'S most influential philosophers; synthesize philosophy and psychology; reflex arc; denied structuralism - that animals respond to disjointed stimulus and response chains; instead functionalism - constantly adapting to environment rathe






12. wrote Origin of Species and the Descent of Man - did not create the concept of evolution - but made it a scientifically sound principle by positing that natural selection was its driving force






13. Carried Franz Joseph Gall on his work - even when others proved theory wrong






14. Tolman; pursuing signs towards a goal; purposive behaviour






15. Founded behaviouralism; studied conditioning - stimulus-response chains - objective - observable behaviours; humans ready to be trained by environment






16. Human and animals are machines - sense-perception was all that could be known - can use science to learn people (like physics vs. machines)






17. Frankl; focuses on person'S will to meaning






18. Believed healing of physical ailments came from manipulation of bodily fluids; animal magnetism (mind control of one person over another) responsible for patient recoveries; used technique of mesmerism (hypnotism)






19. I think therefore I am - figure out truth through reason and deduction; dualism/ mind-body problem






20. Gestalt ('whole') psychology - asserts perception is greater than the sum of its parts






21. First to use statistics and created correlation coefficient; wrote Hereditary Genius - used Darwinian principles to promote eugenics






22. Sensation; hearing and color vision - foundation for modern perception research






23. Law of effect; precursor to operant conditioning






24. Physical world not all that could be known - presence of universal forms and innate knowledge - abstract and unsystematic






25. Understanding the mysterious world temporarily because a question for church - then philosophy was reclaimed by scholars






26. Man mind is tabula rasa (blank slate) at first; knowledge not innate - from experience






27. 8 stages of psychosocial development; noted for completeness from infancy through old age; coined 'identity crisis' of adolescence






28. Most important question of the time: understanding the mind (supplanted understanding existence)






29. Mechanistic behavioural ideas; motivation: performance = drive x habit; we do what we need and what worked best in the past; Kenneth Spence modified theory






30. Socrates - Plato - Aristotle






31. Physiologist - existence of 'Specific nerve energies' - taught Wilhelm Wundt






32. Cognitive development in children; The Language and Thought of the Child - Moral Judgment of the Child - Origins of Intelligence in Children






33. The idea that the nature of a person could be known by examining the shape and contours of the skull - Brain - seat of the soul






34. Founder of ethology; imprinting in ducklings; On Aggression






35. Founding experimental psychology from Elements of Psychophysics; first systematic experiment to result in mathematical conclusions; previously thought the mind could not be studied empirically






36. Evolutionary psychology vs. social constructionism - whether psychological phenomena are the result of inborn - genetic factors or the result of cultural and society influences






37. The original philosophic mentor who pondered the abstract ideas of truth - beauty and justice






38. Emerged after WWII - psychology research to a practical field






39. America'S first Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard; coined the term 'adolescence' - started American Journal of Psychology - founded American Psychological Association






40. Ancient Greeks - middle ages (500-1600) - scientific revolution (1600-1700) - Enlightenment (1700-1800) The brink of psychology (1800-1900) - The saga continues (1900s)






41. The idea that characteristics acquired during lifetime passed to future generations






42. Father of experimental psychology - in America doing what Wundt was in Germany - combining physiology and philosophy; informally investigating psychological principles but did not have an official lab until later; wrote principle of psychology - wrot






43. Cognitive therapy; problems arise from maladaptive ways of thinking; therapy to reformulating illogical cognition rather than searching for a life-stress cause; Beck Depression Inventory






44. Rene Descartes - John Locke - Thomas Hobbes






45. Behaviourist - valued both behaviour and cognition; purposive behaviour and sign learning; rats in mazes formed cognitive maps rather than blindly attempting various routes like stimulus-response suggests; also expectancy-value theory of motivation:






46. Movement for better care for mentally ill through hospitalization






47. Anton Mesmer - Franz Joseph Gall - J. Spurzheim - Charles Darwin - Sir Francis Galton - Gustav Fechner - Johannes Muller - Wilhelm Wundt - Herbert Spencer - William James - Hermann von Helmholtz - Stanley Hall - John Dewey - Edward Titchener - James






48. Minds were active - not passive






49. Modified Hull'S Performance = drive x habit theory






50. Created phrenology