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Which of the following pseudosciences was particularly used to validate ethnic stereotypes?

William James, who is sometimes considered America’s greatest psychologist, turned from psychology in his later career and became exclusively a philosopher. He was at increasing odds with the new academic psychology in America over his continued interest in:

Wundt studied the speed of mental events using a procedure known as…

Who was the founder of school psychology?

Cattell’s anthropometric intelligence tests were grounded in the philosophy of…

The distinction for Ebbinghaus’ studies of memory is that he…

Treatment in mental asylums in the 1800s typically consisted of occupational therapy, exercise, religious training, and recreation. This treatment program was known as

Jean-Baptiste and Simon Ernest Aubertin were early advocates for…

Research by German neurophysiologists Edward Hitzig and Eduard Fritsch involved the exposed cerebral cortex of dogs and the application of mild electrical shocks to the cortical surface. What they found was that, within certain areas of the cortex, shocks produced voluntary movements of the dog’s limbs. Their findings supported the claim that the cortex was specialized for function—a claim made by each of the following except

Woodworth’s psychology is often described as an S-O-R psychology with the “O” standing for…