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Analysis of consciousness
innate ideas are a prereq for learning new ideas |
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Built of Des Cartes
have a bunch of innate ideas that we then associate together to form knowledge
behavior is guided by appetites and aversions |
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| Associationist impircist school |
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| Groups of ideas bond together into associations, learn to predict situations, born with no innate knowledge |
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Sensing and knowing was innate, the rest was learned
wolf first to use term psychology in publication |
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| Gaulds and spersine attempted to map parts of the brain that have certain faculties, such as anger center. Known as phrenology, failed |
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| Concepts that do not conflict can sit together in the brain, but concepts that conflict can not. The weaker concept will be pushed out by the stronger one. |
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| Measured sensation of touch, came up with first quantitative rule of psychology. equal relative increases of stimuli are proportional to equal relative increments of sensation |
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| First american psychologist |
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First Psychology lab in germany
founded psychology as a science |
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First psychology lab in america at hopkins
founded american journal of psychology
founded american psychology association and was elected president |
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First professor of psychology
at penn |
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| william james wrote principles of psychology |
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Concept of noticable difference,
any notable difference in sensation was equal to last increment needed to feel difference
was a subjective unit of measurement, which is still widely used today |
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| Natural selection, evolution opened door as a way to study animal behavior with relationship to humans |
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| first to use statistics, tried to prove superior intelligence was inquired |
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| First to investigate insanity from a scientific approach |
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| Theory that the mind can cause conditions that look like neurological disorders, but truly are not, such a blindness or paralysis. Originally thought abnormal state had to be physical-somatogenic, then switched to psychogenic |
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| Hypnotized female to display abnormal symptoms, then she woke up and was fine |
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| Studies in hysteria, unconscious conflict causes disorders that may look neurological |
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| Said there were no psychological disorders, first to write comprehensive book on insanity |
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saw a person completely fall apart because of syphillis
thought is was proof that all psychological problems stem from physical |
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| Figure out how consciousness works and what purpose it serves, behavior is because of environment, need to go beyond introspection and see behavior as a way to adapt |
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| Thought we should I.D. mental elements that made up complex psychological experiences such as reasoning and fear |
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| Psychology should stay a pure science, wanted to describe contents of the mind like we describe contents of the body |
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| Birth of applied psychology PTSS |
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