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How many people had a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 2015? - correct answer ✔✔3.4 million
people had a bachelor's degree in psychology
How many divisions of APA exist? - correct answer ✔✔56 divisions
What 3 elements define science? - correct answer ✔✔1.Systematic Empiricism: Structured observation,
Theory driven
,Test hypotheses.
2. Production of Public Knowledge: Findings submitted to scientific community for scrutiny, Peer review,
Replication and extension
3. Examination of Solvable Problems: What are some unsolvable problems?(Science cannot tell us the
things that are unsolved like the meaning of life, death, good and evil...)
Who could offer psychological services in the 1800s and early 1900s? - correct answer ✔✔America in
the 1800s and early 1900s , no licensing or certification laws.
Anybody who wanted to offer "psychological" services did so and could call themselves anything they
wanted.
There was a practice of psychology (but not a profession) long before there was a science
What are the characteristics of a profession? - correct answer ✔✔Definition: an occupation requiring
training and specialized study" including training
characteristics:
Specialized education
Exchange of information (books, journals. seminars)
Accepted standards of practice
Government certification and/or licensing laws
,What is a charlatan? What is a pseudoscience? - correct answer ✔✔Charlatan: A person who makes
elaborate and fraudulent claims to skill or knowledge
Pseudoscience: A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific
method
Phrenology(the most popular pseudoscience) - correct answer ✔✔Franz Joseph Gall (German physician
and anatomist) research the bumps on the brain:
-different parts of the brain are responsible for different emotional, intellectual, and behavioral functions
-Talents or defects could be assessed by measuring bumps and indentations on the skull
Johann Spurzheim further popularized phrenology
-Died on an American phrenology lecture trip in 1832
-21 emotional and 14 intellectual faculties= 35
Orson and Lorenzo Fowler opened phrenology clinics in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia in the late
1830s
-Franchised their business, trained phrenological examiners, and provided supplies such as phrenology
busts
-Behavioral problems, relationship compatibility employee selection
-Most Americans accepted phrenology despite criticism of its scientific legitimacy
Efforts to increase phrenology's respectability
-Published a magazine filled with (bogus) articles and testimonials of phrenology's "scientific legitimacy"
popular for approximately 70 years despite rejection from scientific community
Popularity declined beginning of 20th century
-The "Lake Wobegon Effect"
"Everybody is above average"; told clients what they wanted to hear.
Physiognomy - correct answer ✔✔a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as
indicative of character or ethnic origin.
Popular early 19th century, remained popular into early 20th century
, Johann Lavater (Swiss theologian)
-Eyes, nose, face and chin indicators of intelligence, morality, etc.
-Essays on Physiognomy (1775) - 800 illustrations
-American businesses used physiognomy in hiring and promoting employees
-Perpetuated racial/ethnic stereotypes
Criminal Physiognomy - correct answer ✔✔Cesare Lombroso (Italian anthropologist/criminologist)
-Criminals have distinct facial features
-Short, large head and large pointy ears, small brain, and bushy eyebrows
-Count Dracula (Brom Stroker 1897)
"The Count is a criminal and of criminal type... and Lombroso would so classify him..."
mesmerism - correct answer ✔✔Franz Anton Mesmer (Austrian physician)
-1774 relieved mental and physical symptoms with magnets
-"animal magnetism"➡️
"Mesmerism"
-1780 popular among Parisian elite
-Eventually abandoned the magnets and used hands to induce trance states and "healing"
-Critics (medical community) accused Mesmer of being a fraud
-King Louis XVI appointed a group to investigate Mesmerism's validity
-King Louis XVI's blue ribbon commission
-No animal magnetic fluids existed & there was no healing
No formal consequences for Mesmer, just a bruised ego
Despite the commission's report, many patients reported
feeling "spiritually invigorated" by the sessions
-Many prominent members, including Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Guillotin
spiritualism - correct answer ✔✔The belief that the dead communicate with the living through a
medium
-Séances
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