People Flashcards
What did Socrates and Plato conclude
Concluded that the mind is separable from the body and that knowledge is innate
What student of Socrates and Plato disagreed and what did he think
Aristotle, arguing that knowledge grows from the experience stored in our memories
What did rené defatted believe
Beloved that animal spirits flow from the brain through nerve to muscle, enabling body movements (hydraulics for simple reflex)
What did John Locke think
He argued that the mind at birth in in a blank state, his ideas with Francis bacon helped form empiricism
What did wilhelm Wundt do
Formed first psychological laboratory and experiment
What did Edward titcheners do
Introduced the school of structuralism, proves unreliable
Who was under Charles Derwin’s influence
William James
What did William James do
Assumes that thinking developed because it was adaptive, founded school of functionalism
What did Mary calkins do
Was the first female president of APA and wasn’t given her psychology degree
Historical roots of psychology include
Biology and philosophy
What did Ivan Pavlov do
Pioneered the study of learning
What did Jean piglet do
Studies children
What did Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow do
Felt behaviorism was too mechanistic and forged humanistic psychology
As a science psychology is less a set of findings than a way of
Asking and answering questions
What did Francis bacon do
One founder of modern science, concluded superstition is deluded beliefs neglecting the ideas of failure.
Helped form empiricism with John Locke
