History of Psychology - Exam 1

This flashcard deck reviews the history of psychology through key figures, their training, accomplishments, criticisms, and associated philosophical systems. It covers ancient philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who laid foundations for rationalism and empiricism, up to pioneering scientists and psychologists such as Wundt (founder of experimental psychology and voluntarism), Tichener (structuralism), and Ebbinghaus (psychophysics). It also discusses philosophical schools like nativism, empiricism, rationalism, and relativism, and the historic relationships between psychology, philosophy, astronomy, and medicine. The deck highlights the development of rigorous experimental methods, the use of introspection, and the quantification of mental processes. It includes key applied psychology figures like Munsterberg, Lewin, and Kohler, and conceptual advances such as Gestalt psychology and psychophysics. Overall, the deck provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of psychological thought from its philosophical roots to early scientific and experimental applications.

Esta baraja de tarjetas repasa la historia de la psicología a través de figuras principales, sus entrenamientos, logros, críticas y sistemas filosóficos asociados. Cubre desde filósofos antiguos como Sócrates, Platón y Aristóteles, que establecieron bases para el racionalismo y empirismo, hasta científicos y psicólogos pioneros como Wundt (fundador de la psicología experimental y voluntarismo), Tichener (estructuralismo) y Ebbinghaus (psicofísica). También se discuten corrientes filosóficas como el nativismo, empirismo, racionalismo y relativismo, y relaciones históricas entre psicología, filosofía, astronomía y medicina. Destaca el desarrollo de métodos experimentales rigurosos, la introspección, y la cuantificación de procesos mentales. Se abordan además figuras clave en psicología aplicada como Munsterberg, Lewin y Kohler, y desarrollos conceptuales como la gestalt y la psicofísica. En resumen, la baraja proporciona una visión integral sobre la evolución del pensamiento psicológico desde sus raíces filosóficas hasta las primeras aplicaciones científicas y experimentales.

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• Max weber b absolute threshold experiments touch tactile
• Inherited n/a plato training trained socrates  accomplishments:  sensory
• Gallileo  training u pisa run  lens making hans
• Free psychology n/a john stuart mill training trained
• Mind body rene descartes  training jesuit religious law
• Studied 1st psychophysics memory difference sensation corresponds psychophysiological
• Experimental psychology influenced physical social psy 1st scientific
• Ernst mach b physicist philosopher properties spatial auditory
• Univ observed introspection mental actions criticism franz brentano
• Wurzburg psychology criticism n/a carl stumpf  training univ
• Gestalt kurt koffka b co-founder psychology studied perception
• Brain criticism contours marie-jean pierre flourens training french
• Gestalt n/a max wetheimer training studied stumpf ph.d
• Studied proved behaviorisms explanation learning criticism wolfgang kohler
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• Copernicus b earth revolves sun rotates axis didn’t
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• James mill b father john stuart pro-democracy ideas
• Franz joseph gall b phrenology personality inferred outward
• Johann caspar spurzheim b gall’s asst popularized phrenology
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• Rationalism philosophical orientation supposes priori knowledge understood deduction
• Relativism knowledge absolute product flawed human mental processes
• Physical psychophysics quantitative measurement stimuli sensations perceptions effect
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• Studied historic relationship psychology and medicine renaissance advances medicine
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• Gestalt modern wurzburg brentano tradition research psychology cognitive
• Principles gestalt psychology phenomena experiments perceptual holistic thinking
• Gestalt physics physicist relation psychology inspired max weirtheimer
• Theory black yellow mania n/a hippocrates training templar
• N/a socratic student socrates training accomplishments created method
• Newton b experiments refracted light showed math language
• Empiricist simple john locke  training oxford medicine accomplishments
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• University empiricist measured herbart’s view soul rudolf hermann
• Argues kant psychology measure psyche physics infers natural
• Johannes peter muller b doctrine specific nerve energies
• Criticism wundt edward tichener training phd accomplishments structuralism
• Psy psychology forensic hugo munsterberg training phd wundt
• Memory criticism n/a herman ebbinghaus training university bonn
• Univ wundt psy criticism n/a oswald kulpe training
• Goals child training studied gestalt applied focus work
• Vesalius b anatomist empirical observational approach dissection
• Spinoza b anti-descartes dualism mind body united reality
• Hermann ludwig von helmholtz b physiology optics acoustics
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• Nativism perceptions built operational birth informative world contents
• Structuralism mental introspection consciousness sought reduce mind basic
• O philosophers historic relationship psychology and philosophy purpose discover

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