Historical foundations Flashcards

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Phrenology

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Frantz Joseph Gall.
Biological view of the mind.
Functional localization

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Psychophysics

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Gustav Fechner
Matter and consciousness are two sides of the same reality.
Measured consciousness.

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Introspectionism

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Wilhelm Wundt, father of experimental science of psychology.
Having experiences, attending to them and verbally describing them.
Apperception: center field of consciousness
Apprehension: periphery of consciousness

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Structuralism

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E.B Titchener
Radical form of introspectionism
The mind is the stream of mental processes that we experience subjectively.
Flows from birth to death

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William James

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Father of American psychology.
Grandfather of modern consciousness studies.
Consciousness is something that flows, ab ever-changing stream of experience. It is not fixes and simple sensations does not exist.

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Gestalt-Psychology

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Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Koffa
Max Weirtheimer
Consciousness is not a puzzle of atoms of sensation, it is holistic.

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Isomorphism

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Mind-brain theory.

Conscious experiences is directly mapped into some physiological process in the brain.

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Behaviorism

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John B.Watson

Every statement in science must be verifiable by direct and public observations

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Functionalism

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Opens the black box, and finds smaller boxes inside.
Likens the mind to a computer program, input goes through the mind and follows a set of rules and then results in output.

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