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Primitive Stage

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Roots from folklore, mythology, entities

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Animism

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Belief that spirits are everywhere

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Early Greek Influence

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Non-scientific, not much investigation

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Plato

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Religious man, conceived the idea that everyone has a soul (miniature embodiment of the Greek city-state)
“Reason rule over desire”

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Aristotle

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Closest to a true scientist

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Psychology in the Middle Ages

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Church was the source of all knowledge

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Galileo

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Criticized by the church

Opened the way for true science by discovering the telescope

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Francis Bacon

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Social psychologist

Advocate for practical/empirical thinking

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Descartes

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Developed the mind-body theory that stated that the mind and the physical world only interact at the pineal gland
“I think, therefore I am.”

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Pineal Glad

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Associated with melatonin

Located at the base of the brain

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Von Helmholtz

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Involved in experimental psychology
Measured the speed of nerve impulses
Came up with the theory of vision and hearing

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Fechner

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Involved in psychophysics

Studied relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli and the sensations they produce

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17th Century

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Age of Enlightenment

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18th Century

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Age of Reason

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19th Century

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Age of Progress

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20th Century

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Age of Anxiety

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21st Century

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Age of Technology

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Saul

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Suffered manic depressive episodes/bipolar disorder

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Cambyses

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First alcoholic on record

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Delusional disorder

Thought he was a wolf/lycanthropy

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Hercules

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Suffered from a seizure disorder

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Ajax

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Experienced hallucinations

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Tamerlane

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Fetish for women’s underwear

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George III

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Acute mania

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Rousseau
"Back to nature"
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Mozart
Paranoia
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Beethoven
Paranoia
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Van Gogh
Seizure disorder
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Asylums
Set up in Spain | Influenced by the Moors
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Demonology
Common during the Middle Ages | Caused conversion disorders
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Avicenna and Rhazes
Doctors that kept demonology out of Arabia
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Willing Possession
Cohort of Satan
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Unwilling Possession
Punishment from God
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Hippocrates
Father of Medicine Came up with the personality theory (every man is a miniature embodiment of air, earth, fire, and water) Very into vivisection and letting blood
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Galin
Expanded Hippocrates' theory | Studied the nervous system
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Bethlehem Royal Hospital
Located in London and renamed Bedlam
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Behavioral Science
Heredity x Time x Environment = Developmental Level
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Structuralist School
Started by Wundt Study of conscious experiences Titchener was Wundt's biggest fan and was a professor at Cornell
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Functionalist School
Started by Dewey and James | Study of man's adjustment to his environment
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William James
Wrote Principles of Psychology | First American-born psychologist
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Behaviorist School
Started by Watson, Pavlov, and Thorndike Study of man's overt behavior which they believe was determined by a complex system of independent stimulus-response connections
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B. F. Skinner
Stimulus-Response Psychology Learning Processes Expanded on Watson
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Gestalt School
Started by Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler, and Perls "A whole is worth more than the sum of its parts" Believe you should study the entirety of behavior
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Four Parts of Psychoanalysis
1. Early childhood experiences 2. Unconscious motivation 3. Personality structure 4. Psychosexual stages
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Piaget
Studied cognitive psychology Grouping of child development Qualities that distinguish humans from other animals
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Carl Rogers
Studied humanistic psychology | Focused on "person-centered therapy"
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Maslow
Developed the Hierarchy of Needs | Came up with the principle of self-actualization
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Galton
Functionalist | Studied human abilities and individual differences
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Building Blocks of Psychology
Stimulus-Response Studying the entire organism Adjustment
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Organs of Adjustment
Includes organs of adjustment and organs of maintenance
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Organs of Maintenance
Stomach, lungs, intestines, glands
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Field Study Approach
Oldest method | Observing without someone knowing
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Introspection
Looking inside of yourself
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Life History Approach
Study a particular behavior pattern and trace it back
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Day Book Approach
Keeping track of daily events
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Clinical Approach
More detailed record of events
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Biographical Method
Analyzing a person based on what has been written about them
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Dimensions
Qualities used by psychologists to classify behavior
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BITCH Test
Used to measure intelligence in people from other cultures
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Oral Stage
Sucking (birth-8mos) | Biting (8mos-18mos)
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Anal Stage
18mos-3yrs | Processes of elimination
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Phallic Stage
3yrs-7yrs | Exhibitionism and childish masturbation
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Latent Stage
4yrs-12yrs Sexuality is repressed Pressure is exerted from outside sources
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Genital Stage
12yrs-21yrs Final stage of psychosexual development Awakening of all of the sexual urges
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Endocrine System
Series of ductless glands that secrete hormones that flow into the bloodstream Regulatory glands
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Hypothalamus
Master control center of the endocrine system | Located in the lower brain stem
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Pituitary Gland
Impacts physical development | Located on the underside of the brain
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Dwarfism
Underfunctioning hormone
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Gigantism
Overfunctioning hormone
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Acromegaly
Oversecretion of a hormone later in life and does not involve the entire body
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Thyroid Gland
Impacts metabolism | Produces an iodine-protein solution known as thyroxine
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Cretinism
When the thyroid is not producing thyroxine at a young age
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Islets of Langerhans
Maintain sugar and insulin balance
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Alpha Cells
Produce glucagon
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Beta Cells
Produce Insulin
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Type I
Sugar diabetes
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Type II
Obesity
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Sex Glands
Secrete hormones and have an impact on development and behavior
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Adolescence
10-11 for girls; sexual peak at 35 | 13-14 for boys; sexual peak at 19
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Male Sex Hormones
Testicular androgens
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Female Sex Hormones
Estrogen and progesterone
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Adrenal Glands
Located on the upper kidney
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Adrenal Medulla
Inner core | Influenced by nervous system
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Adrenal Cortex
Affects maturation, especially masculinity
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Virilism
Overabundance of body hair and deep voice

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