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Undergraduate 4
12/15/2014

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Ixion's Wheel
Definition
Psychology as a circular process
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Jacob's Ladder
Definition
Psychology as a linear process
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Piaget's Spiral
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Psychology as a spiral process
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Neoplatonism
Definition
Prepares ground for Christianity
Extreme continuation of Plato
Human passion holds us back; reject bodily sensations
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Cartesian doubt
Definition
1. Never accept anything as true unless you can recognize it to be
2. Divide each difficulty into smaller parts
3. Think in an orderly fashion from simple to complex
4. Enumerate everything comprehensively and review it generally
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Arabic psychology
Definition
Kept the writings of the Greeks when Christianity was destroying them
Mohamed & Avicenna
Nestorius/Al Kindi/Al Hazen/Averroës
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Deism
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God spins the top and lets it go
The world is a perfect creation that goes on without interference
More like cosmologists; return to Pythagoreans
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The Council of Nicaea
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325AD
Constantine told bishops to organize their beliefs
Principle of the Trinity
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Spencer-Bain Principle
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Persisting random behaviours lead to a pleasant feeling
Extinguished random behaviours lead to a painful feeling
This blends empiricism/associationism/nativism/rationalism
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