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| Form of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy based upon the conceptual analysis of abstract systems of thought. |
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| Term coined by Lightner Witmer to describe a "diagnostic" branch of applied psychology based upon the case study method of medicine |
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| Group of experimental psychologists founded by Titchener in 1904 as a more scientifically rigorous alternative to teh APA |
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| According to Titchener, the form of psychology concerned with the functions of consciousness. |
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| Form of developmental psychology based upon the method of evolutionary biology |
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| the observation of independent physical objects in the external world |
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| James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| Theory that emotion is not the cause of physiological arousal and behavior but the experience of physiological arousal and behavior |
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| Term coined by Cattell to describe psychophysical measures |
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| Harvard society founded int eh 1870s devoted to the discussion of philosophical problems of the day |
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| Term employed by early American psychologists to characterize experimental psychology |
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| phenomenological philosophy |
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| Form of 20th-century Continental European philosophy concerned with the abstract essence of thought |
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| View that the adequacy of any theoretical system should be judged by its practical utility. |
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| pragmatist theory of meaning (Peirce) |
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| View that the content of a belief or proposition is specified in terms of its empirical consequences. |
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| pragmatist theory of truth (James) |
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| View that a belief or proposition is true if ti works to our satisfaction. |
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| Form of 20th-century American philosophy that was an offshoot of evolutionary theory and American functionalist psychology. |
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| Theory that logic and conceptual relations can be treated as naturalistic psychological "laws of thought" |
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| Influence of social groups on judgement and behavior. |
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| According to Titchener, the error of confusing the pure contents of experience with the meaning of the sensory array or the real-world object of experience. |
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| According to Titchener, the form of psychology that aims to describe the basic structure of the mind: the conscious elements of mind and their modes of combination. |
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