Exam 2: Philosophical Influences on Psychology

A major contribution of Descartes to psychology was to deflect attention from the study of the mind in general to the study of consciousness in particular.​

Seventeenth century philosophers and scientists argued that like clocks and the universe,____ are regular,predictable,observable and measurable.​

Hartley attempted to explain psychological and physiological processes in terms of mechanical principles.​

What was the significance of the defecating duck?​

Descartes' contemporaries believed that neither humans nor animals had souls.​

Locke argued that we believe ideas are innate if or when we cannot recall having learned them.​

Contemporary cognitive psychologists' computer model of artificial intelligence is a direct descendant of ____.​

The doctrine of ____ is important because it stimulated opposition among early empiricists and associationists.​

For Descartes,certainty of knowledge was the result of mathematical principles.​

Babbage was the first in modern America to create and market software.​

Aristotle held that the mind was a wax slate upon which impressions are made.Locke invoked the metaphor of the ____ to illustrate the same phenomenon.​

James Mill denied that people had free will.​

Which of the following is a contribution of Rene Descartes to modern psychology?​

Locke argued that ideas seem to us to be innate because ____.​

A basic principle of 17th century physics was that every physical effect is predictable and measurable.​

____ was the first successful demonstration of artificial intelligence.​

The response of salivation following the stimulus of food on the tongue is an illustration of Descartes' ____.​

Wundt inaugurated the era of modern psychology.​

For Descartes,the application of mathematical principles to sciences would produce ____.​

The doctrine that acts are determined by past events is ____.​