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The APA's 1945 constitution listed three areas that the organization existed to advance. What were those three areas?
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How did Helen Thompson's research methods on sex differences differ from the previous "research?"
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What was the general finding in Thompson's research about similarities and differences in performance?
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What hypothesis did Leta Hollingworth test in her dissertation? What did she conclude about that hypothesis?
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What does the variability hypothesis claim?
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What did Hollingworth conclude about the literature supporting the variability hypothesis?
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What is the goal of social action research?
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In Lewin's view, what determines behavior?
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How did Guthrie define scientific racism?
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By the 1940's, what did psychologists such as Klineberg believe about the explanation for racial differences in intelligence?
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What did Kenneth and Mamie Clark find in their research on self-esteem in black children?
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What was significant about the use of the Clarks' research in the Brown vs. Board of Education decision?
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For what phrase is Gestalt Psychology best known?
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What does it mean that Gestalt Psychology is holistic?
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What does it mean that Gestalt Psychology is phenomenological?
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What is the phi phenomenon?
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How did the Gestaltists disagree with Behaviorists about experience?
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In Gestalt Psychology, what is the function of the innate organizing tendencies?
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What is the Zeigarnik Effect?
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What did Köhler conclude about successful problem solving from his studies with chimpanzees?
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In Köhler’s research on chickens, what did he conclude about how they had learned the problem?
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What was Bartlett's approach to studying memory?
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Psychologists often use flow chart models of cognitive processes. On what metaphor are these models based?
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How did Brown and McNeill produce the tip of the tongue phenomenon in the laboratory?
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What did Chomsky argue about a behavioral account of language?
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What did Miller conclude about working memory capacity?
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What does Benjamin argue about the problems the world currently faces?
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How does Benjamin describe the current relationship between the APA and the APS?
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Benjamin points out that psychology has evolved from schools of psychology. How do most psychologists now identify themselves?
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What approach did James Mill use in raising John Stuart Mill?
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What did John Stuart Mill argue about psychology in A System of Logic?
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What did Mill argue about the possibility of sex differences in bodily strength?
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What did Mill argue was the first step toward the enfranchisement of women?
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In what way did Mill agree with John Nichol about the role of conventialities in evidence about differences in ability between men and women?
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What did Mill believe about his intellect in comparison to that of Harriet Taylor?
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What was the triumvirate of Gestalt psychology, the three psychologists who did research on the phi phenomenon at the University of Frankfurt?
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Into what areas did Kurt Lewin extend Gestalt ideas?
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Why did Wertheimer and Lewin leave their professorships in Germany and take positions in the United States?
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What was significant about Kohler’s 1933 letter to a Berlin newspaper?
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In a letter to Kohler, Lewin described his concern that Jewish children would suffer “damage to their natural growth.” What did Lewin say would cause this damage?
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Kohler writes that his resignation means the “abolition of German psychology for many years,” but he does not feel responsible. Why not?
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What was the importance of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
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Where did the idea come from for Kenneth Clark’s studies on self-esteem and racial attitudes?
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In a letter to William Delano, Kenneth Clark offers an explanation for why children in segregated schools are more damaged in self-esteem than children in unsegregated schools. What is Clark’s explanation?
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In a letter to Thurgood Marshall, how does Clark respond to questions from the attorneys for South Carolina?
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The Supreme Court indicated that desegregation should be done with “all deliberate speed.” Why did the court choose that wording?
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Why did the APA allow the use of psychological science in the Brown v. Board of Education decision to go “officially unnoticed?”
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What did Wundt believe about how complex psychological processes could be understood?
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What was James’ complaint about the discreteness of words?
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How did the Behaviorists view language?
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How did the Gestalt psychologists view language?
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How did Chomsky change the way that language was viewed?
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What is the argument that the syntactic component of language is innate?
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Miller states that human language is a combination of two systems. What are these two systems?
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What were the independent and dependent variables in each study?
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What was the purpose of each study? What does each study find from their results?
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What is social psychology concept/theory each article studied? How does each study’s result explain that concept/theory through their studies?
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According to consensus, what event marks the beginning of modern psychology?
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At the time that laboratory experimental psychology arrived in America from Germany, what was the existing academic psychology? What were its three parts?
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Benjamin describes the new psychologists as having two opponents. What were they?
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What idea about the brain is credited to Hippocrates?
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How did Broca’s findings support the idea of localization of function?
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Describe what Hitzig and Fritsch found about electrical stimulation of the cortex in dogs.
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What is the Bell-Magendie Law?
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What did research in the 1960’s show about the trichromatic and opponent process theories?
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What are the principal reasons that Wundt is given credit for founding the science of psychology?
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Why is 1879 generally noted as the birth year of scientific psychology?
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In Wundt's view, what was the goal of psychology?
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How did Ebbinghaus solve the problem that words carried meaning and had pre-existing meanings?
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How did the content of William James's Principles of Psychology compare to the content of mental philosophy?
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What does the James-Lange theory say about emotion?
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What contribution did Mary Whiton Calkins make to psychology?
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What contribute did Cattell make to psychology?
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How did Wundt and Hall differ in their views on applied psychology?
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What were the two schools of thought in early American Psychology that Titchener named?
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In Titchener's view, what were the three tasks for psychology?
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How did the research focus of functionalists differ from the focus for structuralists?
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Describe the reasons why Hollingworth’s research on caffeine was significant.
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What contribution did Witmer make to psychology?
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What was the importance of Walter Dill Scott and his work in psychology?
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What contribution did Münsterberg make to psychology?
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What are examples of Gilbreth's work in engineering psychology?
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According to Benjamin, what was the main difficulty that applied psychologists faced in the early 20th century?
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What does Thorndike’s Law of Effect state?
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How did Pavlov discover classical conditioning?
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What research methods did Watson approve?
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How did Tolman demonstrate latent learning?
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What was the focus of Skinner's R-S psychology?
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Benjamin notes that World War I had two main impacts on applied psychology. What were they?
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What major concern did the new psychologists have about public perception of psychologists?
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How did the Great Depression change industrial psychology?
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What is the goal of human factors psychology?
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