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Socrates

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(ANCIENT GREECE) concluded that mind is separable from body and continues after the body dies. Knowledge is innate (born within us)

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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Plato

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Socrates’ student

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Aristotle

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Suggested that the soul is not selectable from the body and that knowledge (ideas) grow from experience - principles from careful observations

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Rene Discartes

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Believed in soul (mind) - body separation, but wondered how the immaterial mind and physical body communicated
- believed abnormal behavior was caused by abnormalities in the brain

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Francis Bacon

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One of the founders of modern science

-drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation and testing a hypothesis

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John Locke

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Theory of tabula rasa: humans are born as a blank slate and made up of their experiences
-formed modern Empiricism

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Empiricism

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The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Opened the first laboratory in Leipzig, Germany

-associated with structuralism

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Structuralism

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An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind

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Edward Titchener

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Introduced and brought structuralism to the US and opened the first US laboratory at Cornell University

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Introspection

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  • Looking inward

- Self reflective to explore structural elements of the human mind

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function and how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish

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William James

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  • one of the first US psychologists
  • developed functionalism
  • wrote Principles of Psychology
  • Mary Calkins’ teacher
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Mary Calkins

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A student of James, became a pioneering memory researcher and the first female APA President
-student at Harvard denied deploma

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Margaret Floyd Washburn

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First women to receive a Ph. D in psychology

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Humanistic Psychology

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Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth

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Nature-Nurture Issue

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The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors

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Natural Selection

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The principle that, among range of inherited trait variations those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

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Levels of Analysis

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The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural for analyzing any given phenomenon

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Neuroscience Perspective

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Looking at the biological state of the body and how it influences behavior

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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Study how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior

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Cognitive Perspective

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How we process, store retrieve and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior

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Social-Cultural Perspective

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Looking at the culture and social group that one is in and how influences a person’s behavior

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Basic Research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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Applied Research

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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

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Counseling Psychology

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A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well being (often related to school, work, or marriage)

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Clinical Psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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Psychiatry

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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy

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