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Greek naturalist and philosophy, theorized about learning, memory, motivation, emotion, perception, and personality.

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Aristotle 300 B.C.E

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Measured 1/10 of second for a sound occurred, and 2/10 of second when consciously aware of perceiving the sound.

  • led to first psy lab
  • takes longer for people to be aware
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Wundt Experiment measured

Leipzig Germ.

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Used introspection to reveal the structure of human mind

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Structuralism

(Wundt & Titchener

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Explored mental & behavior processes function, how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.

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Functionalism

James inf. Darwin

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Aimed to discover the minds structure

-analyzed how they looked, listened, and smelled.

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Edward Bradford Titchener

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Considered the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. Why does the nose smell? The brain think? Assumed adapted by ancestors.

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William James

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Series used to consider our past,present, and future.

- encouraged explorations of emotions, memories, will power, habits

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Counsiousness

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Joined graduate seminar in Harvard. First APA pres in 1905

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Mary Whiton Calkins (1890)

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First female psychology Ph.D. Wrote “The animal mind”

Second APA pres in 1921

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Dismissed introspection and redefined psychology. “ the scientific study of observable behavior”

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John B. Watson & B.F. Skinner

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View that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior w/o reference to mental processes.

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Behaviorist

1960s

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Seem to analyze personality, offer counseling, and dispense child-rearing advice.

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Psychologist

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Semphasized the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotions responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior

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Freudian Psychology

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Historically significant perspective that emphasizes growth of healthy ppl

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Humanistic Psychologist

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Found behavior and Feud too limiting

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Carl Rodgers and Abraham Maslow

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First philosopher

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Thales

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Theory of atoms and perception

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Democritus

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Gave us Plato

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Socrates

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Gave us dualism
- world of ideas(real)
and world of stuff(not real)

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Plato

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Gave us realism

Believed stuff was real

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Aristotle

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Tried to mesh Greek theology w/Christianity (catholism)

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St.Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas

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Church fathers

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Other pathristics

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I think therefore I am

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Rene Descartes

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Greek + church + European philosophy

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Western thought

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Though: How we do things
Western thought
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First lab in U.S
Stanley Hall
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Teacher @ Harvard, text in English
William James
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Applies psychology to education
John Dewey
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Father of psychoanalysis, mind is mostly unconsciousness
Sigmoid Freud
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The behaviorist
Ivan Pavlov John Watson B.f Skinner
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Absent minded, we act. (Russian)
Ivan Pavlov
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Intro learning to am. (Measurable behavior)
John Watson
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Popularized behaviorism | "No such thing as mind"
B.f. Skinner
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Whole is better than the sum of its part
Gentralist: Max wertheimer Kurt koffka Wolfgang kohler
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Mind changes and differes in age
Dev. Psy: Freud Erik erikson Jean Piaget
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Employing the looking at scientific method, many to judge Indv. - ob. - survey - quasi ex. - case studies
Empiricism
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- research question and lecture review - hypothesis - independent/dependent - choose partisipants - do exper. - analyze data
Experimental process
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To rule out information, or make better analysis
Statistics
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Doesn't cause of effect something (ice cream, murders)
Correlation
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Mental process to talk, hear, analyze, deal God soul through pineal gland
Rene Descartes (1600)
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Believed in energy through atomic particles throughout body
Thomas Hobbes
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Magnetic energy throughout body
Fran's Mesmer (1700)
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Electricity (nervous system) throughout body
Ruigi Galvani
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Glial cells, one direction, movement of chain, highway of neurons
Bell and Magen
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Receive info from other cells
Dendrites
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Passes messages away from cell body to other neurons, muscles, glands
Axons
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Covers axon, help speed neural impulses
Myelin sheath
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Electrical signals traveling down axon
Neural impulses
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Cells life support
Cell body
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- all or none firing - constant low level firing - firing an electron Chem into neurotransmitters - synthetic storage of nt. - release of neural transmiters into synaptic cleft
Synaptic process
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- synthesis by neurons - excitatory/inhibitory - dozen depend on organization
Neurotransmitters
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Separated from brain, not completely
Frontal lobe
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Sensory information, sensory cortex, send out Moto info.
Parietal lobe
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Verbal, lobal, hearing, speaking
Temporal lobe
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Relay of info.
Thalamus
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Motivation, food, sex hormones
Hypothalamus
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Automic process
Medulla
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Fear, aggression
Pons
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Corpus callosum, right lobe acts dependent of left
Split brain theory
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``` Focus on childhood seeking pleasure. Oral-mouth as pleasure (0-2) Anal- Elem process (2-4) Phallic-noticing of sex more (4-6) Latecy- puberty(6-7) Genital-pub-adult ```
Freud theory
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``` Focus on social relationships lifelong Dev. And optimism Trust vs. Mis Autonomy and doubt 2-4 Industry inferiority (4-6 Initetive guilt 6-12 Intamacy isolation young adult Generativity stagnation middle age Integrity despair older adults ```
Erik erikson
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``` Thinking Sensory motor 0-2 Preoperstional 2-5 Concrete operations 5-9 Formal operations 2-5 Can form ideas about love and God ```
Piaget cognitive Dev. Theory
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``` Moral Dev. Theory Pre conventional (5) - best for me Conventional -choices that benefit me/ others Post conventional -choices that benefit out of group ```
Lawrence kohlberg

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