Exam 1: Section 4 : Psychology: Evolution of a Science

John Watson believed that fears were largely innate and the result of our evolutionary history.

Behaviorists deny the existence of all mental processes, such as thinking and consciousness.

The anthropologist Margaret Mead introduced the evolutionary psychology movement.

Noam Chomsky was an outspoken supporter of B. F. Skinner's theory of language.

William James brought Wundt's structuralist school of psychology to the United States.

Philosophical empiricists believe that certain knowledge is innate.

Functionalism was the dominant school of psychology from the 1890s until the advent of the computer in the 1950s.

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

Gordon Allport believed that prejudice was primarily learned behavior.

Psychoanalysis emphasizes the function of conscious mental processes that occur during sexual experiences.

Today, most psychologists believe that the mind is what the brain does.

Psychology is universally defined as the scientific study of observable behavior.

Someone with damage to their Broca's area cannot understand spoken words.

A hub science is any scientific discipline that cannot be reduced to another discipline.

After earning their PhDs, most psychologists today continue to teach or engage in research activities.

An advantage of the evolutionary over the behavioral approach to psychology is that evolutionary hypotheses can more easily be tested.

George Miller demonstrated that we can briefly hold only about 12 pieces of information in memory at any given moment.

Structuralists, such as Wilhelm Wundt, denied the importance of culture to psychology.

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

Absolutism holds that psychological phenomena are never absolute because the results always depend on the culture in which they are studied.