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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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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.
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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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1842-1910
Anticipator of Functional Psychology
Neurasthenia
Stream of Consciousness
Pragmatism |
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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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| The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses. |
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| The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses |
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| The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses |
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| The connection between sensory stimuli and motor responses |
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| Titchener's Structuralism |
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| -conscious experience as dependent on the experiencing person. |
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