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Christianity/Arabic Psychology/Middle Ages/Renaissance/19th
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
12/15/2014

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St. Paul
Definition
First claimed Jesus as Messiah
Strongly influenced by Plato
"Man is the glory of God; woman is the glory of man."
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Plotnius
Definition
Influence on Christian thinking
Continue rejecting senses even more
Immortality provides salvation to people in miserable conditions
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St. Augustine
Definition
Combined Stoicism/Platonism/Neoplatonism/Judaism
Founder of scholasticism
Tripartite soul (memory/understanding/will)
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Mohammed
Definition
He was who you should strive to be like
Islam as a dominant religion arose from his teaching
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Avicenna
Definition
Memorized Qu'aran and Aristotle
Influenced by Neoplatonism/Aristotle/Hippocrates/Galen
Truth must exist prior to experience
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St Thomas Aquinas
Definition
Most successful interpreter of Aristotle for the Church
Faith and reason are two means to attain truth
Can accept empiricism; God will get you the rest of the way
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William of Occam
Definition
Trust in the senses; God must be accepted on faith
Parsimony
Marks the end of scholasticism
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Francis Bacon
Definition
Controlled conditions to study humans
Replication & interobserver agreement
Set foundation for movement of British empiricists
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RĂ©ne Descartes
Definition
Cartesian doubt (reduce to simpler elements)
Innate ideas; clear ideas must be from God
Shift from searching for the truth to seeking to know the mind
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Thomas Hobbes
Definition
Humans as machines & are destructive
No free will (determinism)
Founder of British empiricism
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Isaac Newton
Definition
Laws of motion and acceleration
Worked in optics
Material world guided by natural laws
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John Locke
Definition
Rejection of innate ideas
Tabula rasa
Water bowl experiment
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George Berkeley
Definition
Influence by Locke (extended his philosophy)
External world depends on perception (tree/woods/hear?)
Distance perception
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David Hume
Definition
Principles of association (resemblance/contiguity/cause-effect)
Method of natural science
Sceptic positivist
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David Hartley
Definition
Mind and body linked biologically (white medullary substance)
First to give physiological explanation of positive afterimages
Associationist
Term
Immanuel Kant
Definition
Influenced by Hume, Copernicus, Newton
Rationalist/nativist
Psychology can never be a real science (can't stop it to observe it)
Term
Mary Wollstonecraft
Definition
Empiricist
Access to education for all, regardless of gender or status
Develops a theory about emotion and reason
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James Mill
Definition
Believed children were a tabula rasa
Sensations = building blocks of the mind
Believed in physiological associations (Hartley's ideas)
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John Stuart Mill
Definition
Accepted father's view of the brain
Strength of associations vary with vividness and frequency
Mental chemistry
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August Compte
Definition
Positivist; empirical observations
Phrenology (head bumps)
Study of the mind's products and not the mind itself
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Pierre-Paul Broca
Definition
Well-known for brain work
Broca's aphasia
Misogynist (females inferior because of smaller brains)
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