HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

Answer the following:

1. How old is the field of psychology?

2. When time period is "modern" psychology attributed to?

3. What distinguishes older from modern psychology?

4. What was Rene Descartes' contribution to psychology?

5. Who is associated with the term "tabula rasa?"

6. What Freudian terms were improperly translated from German?

7. What is the difference between the Naturalistic and the Personalistic theory of scientific discovery?

8. Define the Zeitgeist.

9. Define reductionism, determinism.

10. Define mechanism, and empiricism.

11. What was John Locke's theory on learning? Are ideas innate or not? Why?

12. Why were women rejected for graduate programs in psychology?

13. What is the mind-body problem?

14. Define positivism, materialism, and empiricism.

15. Define the mind-body problem.

16. In Descartes' Doctrine of Ideas, what are the two types of ideas postulated?

17. Explain Auguste Comte's idea of positivism.

18. What did George Berkeley mean by "mentalism?"