History

Question 1

tabula rasa

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John Locke: man’s mind is a blank slate, and what we know comes from experience

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes

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humans are machines and their behavior can be explained just as physics can explain the world

Question 3

Gall

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phrenology

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Galton

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first to use stats, created correlation coefficient, promoted eugenics

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Fechner

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founded experimental psych

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Wilhelm Wundt

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founder of psychology - established first lab

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Stanley Hall

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first PhD in psych in the US, coined “adolescence,” started American Journal of Psych and APA

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John Dewey

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reflex arc: animals constantly adapt to their environment

- foundation for functionalism (adaptive nature of mind and body)

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Titchener

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structuralism - analysis of human consciousness through introspection

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Dorothea Dix

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19th century movement to provide better care for the mentally ill

Question 11

Gestalt psych

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the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

- Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka