Exam 1: Evolution of Psychological Science-Part C

Jean Piaget studied the perceptual and cognitive errors of children in order to understand the development of the human mind.

With the advent of computers,cognitive psychologists began conceptualizing the mind as hardware and the brain as software.

Today,one fourth of the members of the American Psychological Association are women.

Broca's research was consistent with Hobbes' philosophical position that mental processes were grounded in the brain.

Social psychology began as a rejection of Gestalt psychology.

Gestalt psychologists believed that the entirety of a perceptual experience can be greater than the sum of its component parts.

The founder of behaviorism was William James.

Darwin's theory of natural selection no longer plays a prominent role among today's evolutionary psychologists.

G.Stanley Hall established the first psychological laboratory in the United States.

Gordon Allport believed that prejudice was primarily a learned behavior.

The structuralist approach gradually faded,mostly because of the inadequacies of psychoanalysis.

Karl Lashley discovered that by removing small sections of a rat's brain,he could completely erase its memory of a previously learned maze.

The advent of computers led,in part,to the rise of cognitive psychology.

Cultural psychology began to emerge as a strong force in psychology in the early 1900s.

Maslow and Rogers are regarded as being more optimistic about the human condition than Freud.

The goal of psychoanalysis is to banish unwanted feelings and memories into the unconscious.

Counseling psychologists usually focus on psychological issues that occur in the workplace.

Freud believed that unconscious mental processes shape feelings,thoughts,and behaviors.

Freud's theories have proven difficult to test.

Frederic Bartlett conceptualized memory as a photographic representation of a past experience.