Exam 1: Evolution of Psychological Science-Part C

Charcot used hypnosis to treat patients with hysteria.

Behavioral measures typically are more subjective than introspective measures.

Gordon Allport believed that prejudice was a natural result of a perceptual error.

Gestalt psychologists believed that the mind imposes organization on what it perceives.

By studying how quickly rats pressed levers for food pellets before and after surgery that removed parts of their brains,Karl Lashley hoped to discover the precise spot in the brain where learning occurs.

The classical Greek philosophers tested their theories using the scientific method.

Wilhelm Wundt was most interested in how consciousness is an adaptive feature of the human existence.

Someone with damage to their Broca's area cannot understand spoken words.

Mary Calkins was the first female president of the American Psychological Association.

Psychoanalysis emphasizes the function of conscious mental processes that occur during sexual experiences.

The Greek philosopher most associated with philosophical empiricism is Aristotle.

A hub science is a scientific discipline that links and influences its subfields.

Karl Lashley discovered that maze learning tends to be localized to a small area in the left-brain hemisphere termed the Broca's area.

Structuralists,such as Wilhelm Wundt,denied the importance of culture to psychology.

Introspection as a scientific method failed because it did not generate replicable observations.

Physiological psychology was the forerunner of behavioral neuroscience.

Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879.

Cognitive psychology is a field of psychology that attempts to understand the links between brain activity and cognitive processes.

Behaviorism focused on the scientific study of objectively observable behavior.

Helmholtz developed introspection as a tool for understanding the structure of consciousness.