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| stone age humans carved holes through the skull to release evil spirits |
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| theorzied between thought and behavior |
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| Wilhelm Wundt set up first psych lab in Leipzing, Germany |
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| he idea that the mind operate by combining subjective emotions and objective sensations |
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| Principales of Psychology |
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| first psych text book - 1890 - William James |
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| Gestalt psychologist - argued against dividng human thought and behavior into discreat structures |
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| tried to examine a person's total experience because the way we experience the world is more than just an accumulation of various preceptual experience . |
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| Sigmuund Freud - believed that the unconscious mind controls much of our thouhght and actions |
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| Psychoanalyst - focused on unconscious - emphasized the importance of early childhood |
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| Behaviorlism - studied Ivan Pavlov and declared psych must limit itself to observable phenomena - reflexes (dog salavting experiment) |
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| Behaviorism - skinner box / operant chamber(for animals) - if you're rewarded youll most likely do it again and vice versa |
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| "psyche" = the soul - "logos" - the study of |
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| study of human beavhiors and mental processes |
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| first systematic research on human behavior |
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| first to speculate on the nature of the mind. relied on observation, introspection (self reflective), and philosiphy |
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"what factors lead to a meaningful life?"
- main factor is being aware of your ignorance and try to learn as much as possible to become less ignorant. - figure out what you dont know and learn it - not about accumulating wealth - question authority - killed for ruining the greek childrens minds |
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-Student of Socrates
-Nature vs. Nurture - human's posses innate knowledge |
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-Student of Plato
-first to emphasize that theories are good, but you need to have observations based on reason and logic |
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| (greek belief) - divided humans into two distinct parts (body and spirit) - believe each part can live on its own |
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| (modern belief) - everything derived from matter - no real division of body and spirit - your spirit exists because your brain exists |
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"Contigo ergo sum" (I think therefor I am)
- Cartesian dualism - mind is substance distinct from the body - claimed only humnas have souls, emotions, and reflect on their thougts. - believed your soul lives forever |
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| Empiiricism - Acquisitions of truth through observation an experience [evidence] - believed in Tabula Rasa (you are born with a blank slate, you know absolutly nothing - nothing is innate - believed in nature (not nurture) |
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| Consciousness - by product of the machinery of the brain - first to challenge Decartes - He wrote a book Leviathan (life in the state of natrue is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" |
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| Disagreed with Hobbes on the nature of man - argued that man in nature is a noble savage who lives a solitary and peaceable existinace - he claimed society itself corrupts humans |
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| First philosopher to argue that the mind plays an active role in constituting the objects of knowledge - he tried to figure out how we comprehend things - founder of psychophysics [how ohumans make sense of the world [sensation and perception]] |
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| wrote "the origin of species" - his theory of evolution - traits: personality and intelligence - implications: humans regraded as part of the animmal kingdom (explore certain impulses and urges) |
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| Darwins cousin- took his ideas and started the eugenics movment - derived from Latin "Eu" = good "genics" = born |
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| established first psych lab in Leipzing, Germany 1879 - very intersted in sensation and perception research (vision and hearing, controlled lab experiments)- came up with structuralism - trying to figure out basic key elements to human consciousness based on sensation and perception |
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| Est. first Psych Lab at J.Hopkins U in 1880s - one of the founders of the APA - elected first prez in 1892 |
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| American Psychological Asoociation - 1892 - first prez was G. Stanley Hall |
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| Yale Professor - founded the concepts of functionalism[ focused on evolutionary or adaptive view of behavior] applied Darwin's theories to human behavior - published the first textbook in 1890 "The Principales of Psych" |
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| Yale Professor - founded the concepts of functionalism[ focused on evolutionary or adaptive view of behavior] applied Darwin's theories to human behavior - published the first textbook in 1890 "The Principales of Psych" |
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