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| *The mind at birth is a "blank slate" or a "white paper" on which experience writes. |
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*Opened the first psychology laboratory
*Made psychology an independent discipline |
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| *Introduced "Structuralism" - School of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. |
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*Published "Principles of Psychology" the most influential text in the history of psych.
*Also a functionalist |
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| 1st female president of the APA |
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*Russian physiologist
*Classical Conditioning
*Salivating dog |
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*Austrian physician
*Psychoanalytic perspective
*focus on the unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior |
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*Behaviorist
*rejected introspection and studdied how consequences shape behavior
*Skinner box |
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| *Argued that natural selection (inherited trait variations contributing to survival will be passed on to succeeding generations) shapes behaviors as well as bodies |
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| *Invented "phrenology" a theory that claimed that the bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and our character traits |
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| *Noticed that neural impulses were taking an unexpectedly long time to travel a neural pathway |
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| Candace Pert and Solomon Snyder |
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| *discovered that morphine bound to receptors in areas linked with mood and pain sensations |
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| James Olds and Peter Milner |
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| Located a center in the brain that provides pleasure |
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| *A rod went through his skull and damaged his frontal lobes. |
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| *Reported that after damage to the Broca's area a person would struggle to speak words whill still being able to sing familiar songs and comprehend speech. |
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| *Discovered that after damage to the Wernicke's area people could speek only meaningless words. |
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| *Discovered "phantom"- When an amputee feels sensations in their nonexistent parts |
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| Phillip Vogel and Joseph Bogen |
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| *Operated on the brain to sever the corpus callosum (Split brain) |
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| Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga |
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| *Divided brains of cats and monkeys |
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| *Weber's law: To perceive as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage |
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| David Hubel and Toesten Wiesel |
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*Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features
*Shape
*Angle
*Movement |
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| *Founder of gestalt psychology |
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| *Founder of psychophysics |
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| *Observed the moment the perceptual door between the brain and the outside world slammed shut. |
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| Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley |
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*developed the activation synthesis theory of dreaming that said that dreams do not have meanings and are the result of the brain attempting to make sense of random neuronal firing in the cortex |
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| *Discovered "animal magnetism" |
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| *Viewed hypontic dissociation as a vivid form of everyday mind splits. |
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*Rats learn maze/ lesion cortex/ test memory
*memory is not localized |
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| Eric Kandel and James Schwartz |
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*Observed changes in the sending neurons of a snail.
*When learning occurs, the snail releases more serotonin at certain synapses. |
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| *founder of differential psychology |
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| Henry Roediger and Kathleen McDermott |
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*Remembering Words Not Presented in Lists
*False memory |
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| *Children are "biologically stable individuals" |
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| Richard Atkinson and Richard Smith |
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*Three stage processing model of memory
*Sensory memory -> short-term memory-> long-term memory |
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| *Demonstrated the benefits of hierarchical organization |
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| *"The magical number seven, plus or minus two" |
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*Misinformtion effect
*Two groups are shown a video. one group is told that the car smashed into another car and the other group was told that the car hit another car |
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