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The French Sensationalists
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/29/2015

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Sensationalism
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French though concentrated on the sensory aspects of human experience.
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DeCondillac (1715-1780
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Reduced the mind to the roles of a receptor for sensory experience and a receptacle for memories.
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Charles Bonnet (1720 1793)
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Plants are endowed with sensation, discrimination, and judgement.
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De la Mettrie (1709-1751
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Emphasized the role of the brain in human pathology
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Pierre Cabanis (1757-1808)
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He recognized levels of consciousness , including unconscious and semi-conscious processes.
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Maine de Biran ( (1766-1854)
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He believed in a physiological psychology explained by sensory processes.
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French Positivism
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The positivist seeks to coordinate observable facts and find descriptive laws of natural events.
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August Comte (1798-1857)
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There are six basic sciences, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and sociology.
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