The development of ALL aspects of the universe is evolutionary including human character and social institutions
what is Spencer's notion of social darwinism?
Synthetic Philosophy (Spencer)
Definition: Idea that knowledge and experience can be explained in terms of evolutionary principals
Samuel Butler... He proposed that mechanical evolution was occurring through the same process that guided human evolution
Who extended Darwins ideas on evolution to machines?
Calculating machine
What was the type of machine Babbage created in the 19th century?
made duplicate human movement and thought
Describe Hollerith's approach to processing information by machine
George Beard, Definition: American Nervousness .. (more educated people were likely to get it)
Who coined the term "Neurasthenia" and what does it mean?
Women were told to spend 6 weeks in bed, with no social life, and gain lots of weight. Men were told to go on vacation and take time to relax
What was the prescribed cures for neurasthenia for men and women?
Introspection
Definition: Looking into our own minds and reporting what we discover
Pragmatism
Definition: The doctorine that the validity of ideas is measured by their practical consequences
1. Material - everything we call our own, body, family, home, style of dress 2. Social - recognition we receive from other people... how we act different with different people (mother vs. partner) 3. Spiritual - inner or subjective self
According to James what are the components of a persons sense of self? [3 aspects]
Mary Calkins
Who was the first women president of the APA?
Variability hypothesis
Definition: notion that men show a wider range and variation of physical and mental development than women
Woolley and Hollingworth
Who (two) made tests to measure motor abilities and sensory threshold
G. Stanley Hall
Who created the very first "American Journal of Psychology"?
Francis Cecil Summer
First African American to earn a Ph. D in psychology?
Recapitution theory
Definition: Halls idea that the psychological development of children repeats the history of the human race