History &
Systems of Psychology
Unit Test #1
Review
- Definitions: psychology, science, scientific theory,
scientific law, epistemology
- Major contributions of Popper & Kuhn
- Determinism vs. indeterminism, major types of
determinism
- When did philosophy begin?
- Plato’s theory of reality, dualism, and 3-part soul
- Aristotle’s major ideas
- Hippocrates’ major ideas on healing
- Major ideas of Philo and neoplatonists
- Major contributions of Augustine
- Characteristics of Dark/Middle Ages
- Major ideas of Maimonides, Abelard, Scholastics
generally, and Aquinas
- Renaissance critique of religious practices
- Major ideas of Galileo & Newton
- Bacon’s views on science
- Descartes’ ideas about philosophy, the mind & senses,
mechanical principles
- Characteristics of empiricists
- Hobbes – view of universe and people
- Associationism – definition, various “laws”
- Hume – basic ideas about reality, causation, mind
- Hartley – contribution about physical basis of
thoughts
- J.S. Mill – idea of mental chemistry
- Definitions of positivism and scientism
- Major differences between empiricists and rationalists
- Leibniz – ideas of innate abilities in the mind, ideas
about conscious and unconscious experience, apperception
- Kant – views on phenomenological experience,
categories of thought, our understanding of physical reality
- Herbart – consciousness, apperceptive mass, repression
- Characteristics of the Enlightenment or Age of Reason