People to know for final Flashcards
Socrates & Plato
believed the mind and body to be separate
- born with knowledge
Aristotle
mind and body are connected
- knowledge gained from experience
Avicenna
mind at birth is a blank slate
Ibn Tufail
wrote Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
- influenced John Lockes theory
Renee Descartes
mind and body are both independent and connected
- substances from blood flows to brain to produce thought and movement
John Locke
mind and body composed of the same substance
James Mill
mind is entirely physical - therefore follows laws
Helmholtz
demonstrated nerves take time to transmit
- tested on frogs
Wundt and Titchner
examined structures of the mind through introspection
- created structuralism
William James (intro psych)
focused on how mental and behavioural processes functioned
- created functionalism
Sigmund Freud
founder of psychoanalysis
John B Watson
discovered behaviourism
William James (consciousness)
consciousness is not chopped up, it flows
Freud (why do we dream)
wish fulfillment
Hobson & McCarly (why do we dream)
activation-synthesis model
Cartwright (why do we dream)
problem solving
Ian Pavlov
classical conditioning
- conditioned dogs with food and a whistle
Nisbett and Wilson
studied the halo effect
Broadbent and Treisman
attenuation theory
- theory of selective attention
Thorndike
measured the time it took cats to escape from puzzle boxes
- studied law of effect: behaviour followed by pleasant stimulus tends to be repeated