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| The philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. |
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| Who argued in favor of nativism? |
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| The philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience. |
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| Who argued in favor of empiricism? |
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| A now defunct theory that specific mental abilities are characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain |
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| Who developed a psychological theory known as phrenology? |
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| Who argued the body and mind are fundamentally different things? They also believed in dualism. |
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| Who trained participants to respond when he applied a stimulus and then recorded the reaction time? |
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| Surgeon who worked with brain-damaged person who could comprehend but not produce spoken language |
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Opened first psychology laboratory.
Believed that scientific psychology should focus on analyzing consciousness. |
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| Adopted an approach called structuralism |
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| Adopted an approach called functionalism |
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| Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers pioneered a new movement called |
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| Who proposed that psychologists focus entirely on behaviorism |
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| Who created the principle of reinforcement |
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| A psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts |
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| The scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory and reasoning |
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| The first women elected APA president |
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