PSYC 4600 1st EditionExam # 1 Study GuideNote: 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 centuriesThe Middle Ages and Renaissance – prominent figures and their major ideas/roles they played- St. Augustine- Avicenna and Averroës- St. Thomas Aquinas- Galileo GalileiChapter 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 psychologyChapter 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 17th-19thcenturies)- 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 Descarteso Dualismo Nature and location of mind-body interactiono Reflex action theoryo 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 machineo John Stuart Mill – mental chemistryChapter 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- Helmholtzo Prolific scholar with contributions in many areaso Measured speed of neural impulses- Webero Two-point thresholdo Just noticeable differences- Fechnero Psychophysicso Quantified the mind-body relationshipo Set psychology up with precise methods of measurement (of mental phenomena) Countering some who said it could not be