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History of Psychology Ch. 11/12
People and Terms
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/12/2013

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Oswald Kulpe

Definition
Higher mental operations
Explored imageless thought
Studied Inflexibility to thinking
Psychogenesis: Study of Developmental phenomena
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Hermann Ebbinghaus

Definition
  1. Argued for methodological eclecticism
  2. Influenced scientific research in memory
  3. Demonstated  predictable effects of: Inability to access
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Functionalism

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DIFFICULT TO DEFINE

Rooted in becoming

The journey, not the distination

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William James

Definition
Brought Psychology to U.S
First to punlish psychology textbook
Strong individuallistic perspective
Pluralism (Multiple analysis)
Free will as found in experience
Willing to tell reader what to do (Paternal)
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Pragmatism

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  1. A method, a theory of truth, and a way of thinking about the world
  2. Theory should be judged by the work they do (What we extract from them)
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Psychology

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The science of menal life, both of it's phenomena and thier conditions

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Habit

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Essential to the individual & civilization

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The Self

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The totality of all those things that belong to us

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Material Self

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What we have not just the bling (Body, Friends, clothes, house)

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Social Self

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The selves in different social situation (Student, Marriage, Work)

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Spiritual Self

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Superego, very personal, individual. Sits in judgement of other selves

Source for effortful striving

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James-Lange Theory of Emotion

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Emotion is a by-product of physical activity

Human and other animals have instincts
Primary vs. Secondary memory

Psychological present vs. Psychological past

 

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Primary Memory

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Associated with nerve vibrations that have not yet ceased

What is immediately held in consciousness

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Secondary Memory

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Memory of past events that are not in present consciousness

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Hugo Munsterberg

(Wrote in favor of germans, no no)

Definition

Greatly broadened th escope of psychology

- Psych and Law

Psychotherapy

- Industrial psychology

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G. Stanley Hall

Definition
  1. Founded APA
  2. Centered in development across the lifespan
  3. Advocated a biological approach to Psych
  4. Advocated varied approaches to the study of Childhood
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