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Socrates & Plato

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believed the mind and body to be separate
- born with knowledge

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Aristotle

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mind and body are connected
- knowledge gained from experience

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Avicenna

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mind at birth is a blank slate

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Ibn Tufail

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wrote Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
- influenced John Lockes theory

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Renee Descartes

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mind and body are both independent and connected
- substances from blood flows to brain to produce thought and movement

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John Locke

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mind and body composed of the same substance

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James Mill

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mind is entirely physical - therefore follows laws

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Helmholtz

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demonstrated nerves take time to transmit
- tested on frogs

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Wundt and Titchner

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examined structures of the mind through introspection
- created structuralism

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William James (intro psych)

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focused on how mental and behavioural processes functioned
- created functionalism

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Sigmund Freud

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founder of psychoanalysis

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John B Watson

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discovered behaviourism

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William James (consciousness)

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consciousness is not chopped up, it flows

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Freud (why do we dream)

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wish fulfillment

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Hobson & McCarly (why do we dream)

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activation-synthesis model

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Cartwright (why do we dream)

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problem solving

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Ian Pavlov

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classical conditioning
- conditioned dogs with food and a whistle

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Nisbett and Wilson

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studied the halo effect

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Broadbent and Treisman

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attenuation theory
- theory of selective attention

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Thorndike

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measured the time it took cats to escape from puzzle boxes
- studied law of effect: behaviour followed by pleasant stimulus tends to be repeated

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B F Skinner

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introduced the term reinforcement
- consequence that increases the likelihood that behaviour will happen again

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Who was John Watson

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focused on behaviours not mental processes
- learning as a passive response to external stimuli

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Kohler

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studied learning in chimps
- they developed reward seeking behaviours when solving puzzles

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Edward Toleman

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purposive behaviourism
- focuses on behaviour while considering the purpose or goal of the behaviour as well

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Albert Bandura
social learning theory - observation and modelling play a key role in our behaviours
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Herman Ebbinghaus
studied memory, more specifically the forgetting curve and spacing effect
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Francis Galton
founded psychometrics
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Gardner
theory of multiple intelligences
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Binet and Simon
intelligence tests in children
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Charles Spearman
intelligence has two components; generalized and specific ability
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David Weschler
Weschler adult intelligence scale
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John Raven
test of matrices for intelligence - used across all cultures and languages because no words are involved
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James and Lange
James-Lange theory - physiological arousal comes before conscious experience
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Cannon and Bard
Cannon-Bard theory - conscious experience happens at the same time as physiological arousal
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Schacter and Singer
initial physiological arousal is interpreted, leading to conscious experience
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Louis Thurstone
intelligence composed of several different factors
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Abraham Maslow
Maslows hierarchy of needs - physiological needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self esteem, and self actualization (in that order)
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Martin Seleigman
positive psychology
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Piaget
child learns through interactions with the world - children are not little adults - Piaget's levels of intelligence*
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James Harlow
studied baby monkeys away from their mothers - prefer terrycloth "mother"
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John Bowlby
orphans fail to thrive without emotional security provided by maternal care
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Harlow and Bowlby together
recognized the significance of the attachment system
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Erik Erikson
psychosocial development - comprised of overlapping stages that extend from infancy to old age
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Sigmund Freud (personality)
personality determined by unconscious drives, that shape how we interact with the world
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Kitty Genovese
murdered, and lots of people heard but nobody called for help - significance of diffusion of responsibility
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Critics of Freuds theories
too much parental influence he said children have no gender identity until age 6 sexist untestable
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Darley and Latanee
smoke filled room study - proved bystander effect (presence of others decreases the likelihood of helping behaviour)
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Solomon Asch
line judgement study - people were asked to determine which line in a set of lines matched the desired line presented - confederates of the researcher provided the clear wrong answer, influencing other participants to follow their lead and choose the wrong answer
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Stanley Milgram
wanted to understand atrocities of WWII - studied obedience and social pressure related to the influence had on our actions
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Phillip Zimbardo
Stanford prison experiment - studied situation and environmental influences on ones behaviour (the participants were found to lose mental sanity put into a confinement environment)
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Leon Festinger
cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory - cognitive dissonance is when two opposing expectations or actions occur - social comparison theory tells us we cannot judge ourselves and often rely on comparisons to others to evaluate our own actions

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