History and Systems Study Guide 1
I’m not a stickler for exact dates unless it’s Fechner Day (Woo hoo!). You should know the general time period as well as the progression to which these ideas occurred.
For people in History and Systems, you should understand why these people were notable. You need not know every life detail but how the individual fits into the history of psychology.
Background on History of Psychology
Historiography
Issues with reconstructing history
Contextual forces in psychology
Zeitgeist
Personalistic/naturalistic theory
Philosophical Influences in Psychology
Mechanism
Determinism
Reductionism
Automata
Mind-Body Problem
Rene Descartes
Charles Babbage
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
David Hartley
James Mill
John Stuart Mill
Automata
British Empiricists: what was their perspective?
Derived vs. innate ideas
Positivism
Materialism
Primary and secondary qualities
Mentalism
Creative synthesis
Resemblance
Contiguity
Repetition
Physiological Influences in Psychology
Hermann Helmholtz
Ernst Weber
Gustav Fechner
Why was Germany important?
Two point thresholds
Just noticeable differences
Brain mapping research (inside and outside)
Extirpation
Clinical Method
Electrical Stimulation
Franz Gall
Phrenology
Luigi Galvani
Basic idea behind Weber-Fechner law
Absolute threshold
Differential threshold
Psychophysics
Inductive vs deductive approaches
The New Psychology
Leipzig
Wurzburg
Wundt (and his viewpoints)
Introspection
Mental set
Herman Ebbinghaus
Nonsense syllables
Carl Stumpf
Phenomenology
Oswald Kulpe
Systematic Experimental Introspection
Cultural Psychology
Voluntarism
Mediate vs. Immediate experience
sensations vs feelings
Why was Wundt not as successful in Germany?
Act Psychology
Clever Hans
Imageless thought