Exam 7: The Ascent of Science 1815-1914

In terms of mental chronometry, the first quantitative way of measuring mental processes arose in the field of _________.

Based on Binet's work in mental testing, William Stern introduced the concept of IQ. Using Stern's calculations, if Sally was an 8 year old child and she passed the test items typical for an 8 year old child, her IQ would be 8/8 or ________.

Mesmer explained the phenomena he discovered in terms of:

Many general-introductory psychology textbooks are organized by chapters in the order of nerve and brain function, then sensation and perception and finally working toward chapters on thinking and social behavior. This organization incorporates both associationism and physiology and is due to the influence of ______.

Franz Gall is regarded by many to be the founder of _____________.

In the nineteenth century, the first social scientists argued about the proper goals and methods of their fields. John Stuart Mill proposed that the social sciences should:

Eventually Mesmer's claim that his patients trance was the result of animal magnetism was investigated. As a result a simpler explanation was found. As a result, Mesmerism was transformed into ________.

Early French, German, and English psychologists argued over whether psychology should be a genuine positive science of individuals or something different. Although Comte wanted psychology to _________ he also wanted psychology to _____ with the latter being in opposition to the views of many German psychologists of the time.

Mental testing originated primarily in order to:

The country in which psychology established itself primarily in connection with the study of psychopathology was:

Francis Galton was the first to try and develop tests of intelligence and his work influenced James Cattell in America, yet as a practical matter Galton's tests of intelligence were:

Unlike the Enlightenment's "Newton's of the Mind", the Romantics' conception of the Will was captured in the phrase, ____________.

Many of the founders of psychology viewed the mind in the spirit of Romanticism. Which of the following has some aspect of Romanticism in their work?

In the latter part of the 1880's, psychiatrists and neurologists tended to believe that madness was caused by _________. Less sever syndromes like hysteria were _________.

Which of the following developed a more effective and durable means of measuring intelligence?

F. C. Donders used the method of mental chronometry to measure:

With only a few exceptions, theories about the origins of madness and neurosis prior to psychoanalysis emphasized:

What is Mental Chronometry and what contribution did astronomy make to the development of psychology?

Discuss how mesmerism and the psychical research movements both attempted to "naturalize the supernatural".

The country in which psychology established itself primarily in connection with the study of mental testing, for example, the statistical aggregation of measurable differences between minds (animal and human) was :