Top History Of Psychology Flashcards

The history of psychology begins with myths. Every culture on earth has produced its own stories about how the world was made, how human beings fit into it, and where we are all headed. Those myths are unique to the cultures that make them, but they also contain insights about human psychology that can be understood even by people in other cultures. For example, many myths contain stories about love and desire, which are different from the stories told in Western culture but still contain some of the same emotional concepts.

The formal study of psychology was initiated by philosophers in Greece, India, and China (though the Greeks are the ones that usually get all the credit). These philosophers were beginning to think rationally and systematically about the world around them, employing a form of reasoning that is still used in science today.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, a few scientists decided to translate the psychological insights of myth and philosophy into a science. The science of psychology was founded by Sigmund Freud, a neuroscientist who believed that the brain was the key to understanding behavior.

History Of Psychology: Exam 1

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Definition Of History

1. Historia (Greek) = Inquiry 2. Histo...

Great Person Orientation

The Ideas And Actions Of Brilliant Individdua...

Zeitgeist Orientation

Broad Impersonal Foces Rather Than The Indivi...

Cyclical Theory:

History = An Endless Process Of Repitition

Test 4 History And Systems Of Psychology

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Phi Phenomenon

A Product Of Max Werheimer Who Found It While...

Perceptual Constancy

The Tendency Of Animals And Humans To See ...

Max Wertheimer

Gestalt. Studied At Unviersity Of Prague. In ...

Kurt Koffka

Gestalt. In 1909 Got His PhD From University ...

History Of Psychology 1

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The Idea That An External Object (a Stimulus)...

Reflex Action Theory

The Question Of The Distinction Between Menta...

Mind Body Problem

The Threshold At Which Two Points Of Stimulat...

Two Point Threshold

Examination Of One's Mind To Inspect And Repo...

Introspection

History Of Psychology: Exam 2

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Earliest Written Reference To Brain?

Egyption Heiroglyphs From 17th C. BCE

Pierre Cabanes

Discovered Conxciousness Ends When Head Is Se...

Theodore Bischoff

Found No Reaction From A Decapitated Head

Franz Joseph Gall

1. Doctrine Of The Skull: Intelligence ...