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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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18
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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

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Western thought

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First lab in U.S

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Stanley Hall

27
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Teacher @ Harvard, text in English

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William James

28
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Applies psychology to education

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John Dewey

29
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Father of psychoanalysis, mind is mostly unconsciousness

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Sigmoid Freud

30
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The behaviorist

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Ivan Pavlov
John Watson
B.f Skinner

31
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Absent minded, we act. (Russian)

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Ivan Pavlov

32
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Intro learning to am. (Measurable behavior)

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John Watson

33
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Popularized behaviorism

“No such thing as mind”

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B.f. Skinner

34
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Whole is better than the sum of its part

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Gentralist:
Max wertheimer
Kurt koffka
Wolfgang kohler

35
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Mind changes and differes in age

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Dev. Psy:
Freud
Erik erikson
Jean Piaget

36
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Employing the looking at scientific method, many to judge Indv.

  • ob.
  • survey
  • quasi ex.
  • case studies
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Empiricism

37
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  • research question and lecture review
  • hypothesis
  • independent/dependent
  • choose partisipants
  • do exper.
  • analyze data
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Experimental process

38
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To rule out information, or make better analysis

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Statistics

39
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Doesn’t cause of effect something (ice cream, murders)

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Correlation

40
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Mental process to talk, hear, analyze, deal God soul through pineal gland

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Rene Descartes (1600)

41
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Believed in energy through atomic particles throughout body

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Thomas Hobbes

42
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Magnetic energy throughout body

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Fran’s Mesmer (1700)

43
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Electricity (nervous system) throughout body

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Ruigi Galvani

44
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Glial cells, one direction, movement of chain, highway of neurons

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Bell and Magen

45
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Receive info from other cells

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Dendrites

46
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Passes messages away from cell body to other neurons, muscles, glands

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Axons

47
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Covers axon, help speed neural impulses

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Myelin sheath

48
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Electrical signals traveling down axon

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Neural impulses

49
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Cells life support

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Cell body

50
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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
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Synaptic process

51
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  • synthesis by neurons
  • excitatory/inhibitory
  • dozen depend on organization
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Neurotransmitters

52
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Separated from brain, not completely

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Frontal lobe

53
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Sensory information, sensory cortex, send out Moto info.

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Parietal lobe

54
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Verbal, lobal, hearing, speaking

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Temporal lobe

55
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Relay of info.

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Thalamus

56
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Motivation, food, sex hormones

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Hypothalamus

57
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Automic process

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Medulla

58
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Fear, aggression

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Pons

59
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Corpus callosum, right lobe acts dependent of left

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Split brain theory

60
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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
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Freud theory

61
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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
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Erik erikson

62
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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
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Piaget cognitive Dev. Theory

63
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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
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Lawrence kohlberg

Intro to Psychology (1 decks)

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