History Flashcards
Socrates and Plato
concluded mind is separable from the body and knowledge continues after the body is dead (dualism)
Aristotle
concluded that knowledge is NOT preexisting it is built from experience and memories
Rene Descartes
believed the same theory and Socrates and Plato – innate ideas are able to survive through death
Francis Bacon
humans are biased because they do not think about outcomes
John Locke
(philosophical roots of Psychology)
created the essay of understanding
in which he argued that mind at birth is tabula rasa which means blank slate
Charles Darwin
daddy of evolution (natural selection)
Wilhelm Wundt
(introspection/structuralism) daddy of psychology
established the first psych lab
introduced structuralism
Edward Bradford Titchner
(structuralism)
student of Wundt and brought psychology to USA
also one of the founders of structuralism
William James
(functionalism)
William James
Mary Calkins
James tutored her alone about psychology outscored males and first woman to be president of APA
Sigmund Freud
(psychoanalysis; psychodynamic)
childhood memories affect behavior