Exam 2: Early Developments

Why were the Middle Ages sometimes called the Dark Ages?

Contrast Epicureanism and stoicism.

What were Muenzinger's scientific trends?

Contrast determinism and "free will."

Animism, a widespread pre-Socratic belief, holds that souls or spirits inhabit many inanimate things.

What did Aristotle mean by form and matter?

Among the developments in Muenzinger's physiology trend were

Which of the following is often considered to be the year in which experimental psychology was founded?

The Greek anti-reductionists argued that

What was the central idea in the scientific materialism of scientists like De la Mettrie and Wöhler? Viewable by instructor only Answers to short answer questions for Chapter 2: Early developments

Wilhelm Wundt's Elements of Psychophysics, which is widely viewed as having founded experimental psychology, was published in 1875.

What does Aristotle's doctrine of the "tabula rasa" imply?

For each of the years 1860, 1875, and 1879, explain why they have been proposed as the beginning of modern psychology.

List several philosophers influential in the development of critical empiricism.

Describe Plato's hierarchy of Greek society.

What was St. Thomas Aquinas's main contribution? $\bullet$ The attempt to reconcile Aristotle and Church doctrine

Wilhelm Wundt and William James each had a functioning psychological laboratory in 1875.

In what ways was the Renaissance an age of expansion?

Muenzinger's scientific trends leading to the founding of modern experimental psychology included

What were Aristotle's laws of association of ideas?