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| From which Greek words does the term psychology derive? |
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| Psyche (soul) and logos (study of a subject) - These two words are combined to form what word? |
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| What is the literal meaning of the term "psychology?" |
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| "The study of the mind" - This is the literal meaning of what word? |
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| During which century did the term psychology gain usage among scholars? |
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| 18th Century - During this century which word gained use among scholars? |
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| Psychology's intellectual parents? |
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| Philosophy and physiology - These are the intellectual parents of what field of study? |
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| Which intellectual mounted a campaign to establish psychology as an independent field of study? |
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| Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) - Mounted a campaign to establish what field of study as an independent science? |
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| In what year, and at which University, did Wilhelm Wundt establish the first formal psychology research laboratory? |
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| 1879 - University of Leipzig - This is the year and place where which intellectual established the first psychology laboratory? |
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| What two factors fostered the establishment of Wilhelm's Leipzig laboratory? |
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| The healthy expansion of universities and the favoring of the scientific method - These two factors contributed to the establishment of what laboratory? |
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| Psychology's "date of birth"? |
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| 1879 - This is the year of what field of study's "date of birth"? |
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| In what year did Wundt establish the first journal to publish research on psychology? |
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| 1881- This is the year Wundt established the first journal to _________? |
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| Characterized as the founder of psychology? |
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| Wilhelm Wundt - Characterized as the founder of what field of study? |
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| According to Wundt, psychology's primary focus was __________? |
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| Consciousness - This was the primary focus of which early psychologists? |
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| Psychology initially was the study of __________ experience? |
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| Conscious - Initially the focus of what field of study? |
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| Upon what did Wundt's laboratory focus? |
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| Attention - Memory - Reaction-time - sensory process - These were the primary focus of whose laboratory? |
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| Who, at which university, and in what year established the first American research laboratory dedicated to psychology? |
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| G. Stanley Hall - John Hopkins University - 1881 - This is the person, place, and year associated with what significant event in the history of American psychology? |
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| In what year did G. Stanley Hall launch America's first psychology journal? |
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| 1887 - In this year, G. Stanley Hall launched America's first __________ __________? |
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| In what year, and through whose influence, was the American Psychological Association (APA) formed? |
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| 1892 - G. Stanley Hall - This is the year during which, and person who, helped create which association? |
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