L&M Exam 1: Foundations of Leadership
and Management Principles
Willis and Brain anatomy - correct answer ✔✔- 1st to propose that different brain areas controlled
different functions
- wrote an anatomy textbook of the brain
- circle of willis named after him
Galvani - correct answer ✔✔- proposed the notion that electricity is a mechanism of nerve conduction
(nobody though of the nervous system as being electrical until then)
- saw frog legs on a wire and when lightning strikes the wire, the frogs twitched and moved (then
decided to explore this)
Wilhenm Wundt - correct answer ✔✔- formed the 1st formal laboratory of psychology
- 1st to teach the study of psychological processes as a science
Ribot - correct answer ✔✔- memory acquired remotely before damage were relatively preserved
compared to memory acquired right before damage (ribot's law of regression)
- memory requires a certain amount of time to be fixed in order to be permanent
- order we lose memory: recent, then personal, then habits/skills, then emotional memories
Ebbinghaus - correct answer ✔✔forgetting curves: how much we forget over days, forget most things
early on
saving scores: how much less time it takes to relearn a skill/info, tested this w/ having people repeat
nonsense syllables without looking at the list
other: 1st to investigate memory scientifically + systematically, developed concept of nonsense syllables
William James - correct answer ✔✔- had great ideas but couldn't test them bc technology wasn't there
at his time (a lot of what we know today was predicted by him)
- separated habits & memory
and Management Principles
Willis and Brain anatomy - correct answer ✔✔- 1st to propose that different brain areas controlled
different functions
- wrote an anatomy textbook of the brain
- circle of willis named after him
Galvani - correct answer ✔✔- proposed the notion that electricity is a mechanism of nerve conduction
(nobody though of the nervous system as being electrical until then)
- saw frog legs on a wire and when lightning strikes the wire, the frogs twitched and moved (then
decided to explore this)
Wilhenm Wundt - correct answer ✔✔- formed the 1st formal laboratory of psychology
- 1st to teach the study of psychological processes as a science
Ribot - correct answer ✔✔- memory acquired remotely before damage were relatively preserved
compared to memory acquired right before damage (ribot's law of regression)
- memory requires a certain amount of time to be fixed in order to be permanent
- order we lose memory: recent, then personal, then habits/skills, then emotional memories
Ebbinghaus - correct answer ✔✔forgetting curves: how much we forget over days, forget most things
early on
saving scores: how much less time it takes to relearn a skill/info, tested this w/ having people repeat
nonsense syllables without looking at the list
other: 1st to investigate memory scientifically + systematically, developed concept of nonsense syllables
William James - correct answer ✔✔- had great ideas but couldn't test them bc technology wasn't there
at his time (a lot of what we know today was predicted by him)
- separated habits & memory
