PSYC 4600 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Note This is a basic list of topics to help you focus your study efforts it is not an exhaustive list nor it is intended to be a detailed explanatory document see your class notes lecture slides and textbook for those The Ancient Greek Philosophers know their major lasting ideas and how they influenced other prominent thinkers through the ages especially Plato and Aristotle Socrates question everything Plato human knowledge is innate Aristotle human knowledge is largely based on experience What ancient Greek philosophy has in common with modern psychology Pythagoras Hippocrates theory of humors Be able to trace Plato and Aristotle s influence through to major thinkers of the Middle Ages Renaissance and up to the 17th 19th centuries The Middle Ages and Renaissance prominent figures and their major ideas roles they played St Augustine Avicenna and Averro s St Thomas Aquinas Galileo Galilei Chapter 1 The Study of the History of Psychology Zeitgeist Know what epistemology is Psychology as a combination of what two fields Contextual forces that have impacted the development of the field of psychology The experiences of women and ethnic racial minorities in the profession Personalistic and naturalistic approaches to studying the history of psychology Why do we study the history of psychology Chapter 2 Philosophical Influences on Psychology topics listed in no particular order All definitional terms which for this chapter are largely the various doctrines of the 17 th 19th centuries The Zeitgeist of the time mechanism The clock as symbol of mechanism precise predictable able to be built up or broken down into its component parts Automata what they are Babbage s calculating machines and what he is famous for Rene Descartes o Dualism o Nature and location of mind body interaction o Reflex action theory o Doctrine of ideas innate derived British Empiricists what is empiricism o John Locke Tabula rasa Simple and complex ideas Primary and secondary qualities Association learning o George Berkeley Differed from Locke in his focus on mentalism only secondary qualities are important o James Mill the mind is a machine o John Stuart Mill mental chemistry Chapter 3 Physiological Influences on Psychology All definitional terms Why Germany was the right place for psychology to emerge as a science Bessel s role in getting closer to psychology as a science Methods of mapping the brain Helmholtz o Prolific scholar with contributions in many areas o Measured speed of neural impulses Weber o Two point threshold o Just noticeable differences Fechner o Psychophysics o Quantified the mind body relationship o Set psychology up with precise methods of measurement of mental phenomena Countering some who said it could not be done