major players Flashcards
Titchnener
•when: 1867-1927 structuralism & experimental psychology
•why famous:
_influenced by empiricism and associationism
_defended introspection as the main research method - thought participants needed to be trained to do this properly
_not very influential, 3 main criticisms
(1) wurzburg school and binet - humans are not aware of many thought processes and cannot report them
(2) functionalism - not enough practical advantages in knowing the precise structure of the mind
(3) Gestalt psychology - humans are more than sum of individual sensations (interpretation is important as well)
•connection to other major players:
_studied with Wundt
Freud
•when: 1856-1939 psychoanalysis
•why famous:
_psychological treatment to his patients (talking cure)
_people’s actions are controlled on their unconscious
_use of medical cases as research methods - evidence derived by introspection of patients interpreted by therapist
•connection to other major players:
Erikson
•when: 1902-1994 psychoanalysis
•why famous:
_invented term identity crisis
_contributed to our understanding of personality as it is developed and shaped over the life
•connection to other major players:
_influenced by Freud (worked with his daughter)
Galileo
•when: 1564-1642 - scientific revolution
•why famous:
_astronomy: heliocentric model and improved the telescope
_promoted Copernican view of the organization of the universe
•connection to other major players:
_influenced by copernicus
Kepler
•when: 1571-1594 scientific revolution •why famous: _heliocentric model (ellipses) •connection to other major players: _Influenced by Copernicus _Opposed to Galileo (orbits)
Cattell
•when: 1860-1944 evolution theory •why famous: _experimental technique and methology _conducted research on intelligence _Influenced by eugenics •connection to other major players: _Darwin
Darwin
•when: 1809-1882 evolution theory •why famous: _natural selection _survival of the fittest _book - origins of species _importance of cross-fertilization _development of evolutionary theory _description of new species _focuses on similarities human-animals _importance of heredity _theory on how life adapts to changing situations •connection to other major players:
Wundt
•when: 1832-1920 experimental psychology
•why famous:
_physiological psychology
_founded first experimental psychology lab
_mainly promoted EXPERIMENTAL METHODS (reaction time measurements, psycho-physics, memory performance)
_stressed importance of INTROSPECTION for the study of higher mental processes
_historical method - research method consisting in studying the human mind by investigating the products of human cultures, according to Wundt particularly well suited to investigate the “higher” functions of the mind
_limited scientific legacy (his writings were not clear and contradicting each other)
•connection to other major players:
Thorndike
•when: 1874-1949 comparative/educational psychology & experimental psychology
•why famous:
_father of comparative psychology - study animal psychology in an objective way and educational psychology - studied educational issues
_introduced terms “instrumental (operant) conditioning” and “law of effect”
•connection to other major players:
_influenced by Darwin’s ideas
_elaborates the anthropomorphic interpretation - same reasoning in animals and humans
Watson
•when: 1878-1958 behaviorism •why famous: _father of behaviorism _animal psychology _applied classical conditioning to little Albert •connection to other major players: _Influenced by Thorndike & Pavlov _influenced Hull, Skinner and Tolman (agreed on the method but had different views about stimuli-responses relationship
Beeckman
•when: 1588-1637 mind-body problem •why famous: _matter is composed of atoms _describe inertia correctly •connection to other major players: _(might) influenced Descartes - mechanical theory
Descartes
•when: 1596-1650 (rationalism & dualism/mind-body problem)
•why famous:
_mechanistic world view - everything in the material universe can be understood in terms of a complicated machine , things DO NOT have goals and intentions as assumed by the ANIMISTIC view
_body can be studied scientifically
_importance of deductive reasoning
_cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)
_neuroscience contribution: idea of automatic, reflexive reactions that did not involve the will
•connection to other major players:
Bruno
•when: 1548-1600 scientific revolution
•why famous:
_He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model
_Bruno anticipates some of the arguments of Galilei on the relativity principle
•connection to other major players:
_Influenced by Copernicus
_Contemporary to Galilei
Socrates
•when: 470-399 BCE - rationalism
•why famous:
_against writing -> books prevent student from learning for real
_scholastic method -> no critical thinking in studying
•connection to other major players:
Plato
•when: 427-348 BCE - rationalism •why famous: _realm of ideal forms (we perceive nothing other than shadows of the objects - cave analogy) _soul and body are separated -> soul true essence _knowledge through reasoning rather than perception (main important subjects need reasoning - mathematics and geometry) _soul has three parts (1) reason - brain (2) sensation/emotion - heart (3) appetite/lower passions - liver •connection to other major players: _student of Socrates _influenced Descartes
Aristotle
•when: 384-322 BCE - rationalism (gets famous in Renaissance)
•why famous:
_3 types of knowledge
(1) productive - make stuff
(2) practical - how to make stuff, action
(3) theoretical - truth (math, natural science, theology) - composed by axioms from which knowledge was derived by reasoning (OBSERVATION & INTUITION)
_universe composed by
-> sub-lunar region - earth to moon
->super-lunar region - mood to end of universe
_syllogism - Aristotelian logic , argument consisting of three propositions (major premise + minor premise + conclusion = valid/invalid conclusion)
_organum (book)
_correspondence theory of truth - statement is true when it corresponds with reality, assumes that there is a physical reality which has priority and which the human mind tries to understand
•connection to other major players:
_influenced by plato (knowledge less based on reason, for Aristotle there is also space for observation)
Hobbes
•when: 1588-1679 classical realism - empiricism
•why famous:
_considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy
_ influential formulation of social contract theory
•connection to other major players:
_descartes
_beckman
_hume
_locke
Hume
•when: 1711-1776 - Idealism •why famous: supports the idea that in its extreme form empiricism leads to idealism (human knowledge is a construction of the mind, which need not correspond to an outside world) •connection to other major players: _influenced by Berkeley influenced many people: _Kant _Wolff
Fechner
•when: 1801-1887 experimental psychology •why famous: _founder of psychophysic _credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law •connection to other major players: influenced by: _Wundt _Freud _Weber
Gall
•when: 1758-1828 development of neuroscience
•why famous:
_phrenology
•connection to other major players: