Pioneers Flashcards
Thales
water most important element
Pythagoras
saw correspondence between worldly experiences and mathematics
Heraclitus
ambiguous relationship of stability and change
Zeno
describing paradoxes deriving from concept of infinity
Protagoras
concentration on strictly human issues and problems not ultimate
Hippocrates
naturalistic humoral theory & Hippocratic corpus
Socrates
-> teacher of Plato, Meno: immortal born is reborn -> nativist view (knowledge within individual just has to be brought out) & rationalism /emphasizing reason) -> know thyself
Xenophon
-> Socrates student (provided accounts), famous historian
Plato
founder of Academy -> rationalism, idealism (existence of sth. More fundamental& ultimate) & nativism, difference between appearance and ideal forms underlying them
Aristotle
-> empiricist view (knowledge from experience & observation), scale of nature, categories of human psyche
Theoprastus
friend of Aristotle, work on plants complemented his animal collection
Democritus
promoted atomic theory (universe composed of tiny atoms)
Epicurus
accepted Democritus, lifestyle of conscious hedonism
Lucretuis
roman writer celebrating atomic theory and Epicureanism (de Rerum Natura)
Al_kindi
translated Greek writings, introduced Indo-Arabic numerals
Alhazen
optics & visual perception -> laid foundations still recognized -> camera obsura
Avicenna
-> Canon of Medicine (definitive medical text), Book of the Cure (comments on Aristotle -> influenced medieval Europe
Fibonnacci
introduced Indo-Arabic numerals in Europe
Aquinas
Reintroduced Aristotelian views & others after encountering Avicenna’s -> integrating them with Christian belief
Galilei
promoted theory of primary and secondary qualities
Descartes
interactive dualism between body and soul, followed Aristotle, mechanistic explanation for body functions -> highest rationality, conscious, free will & self-awareness (rational soul), simple natures
P.E. Bohemia
important intellectual relationship to Descartes -> how can immaterial soul interact with physical body
Locke
human mind -> tabula rasa -> knowledge comes through experience (empiricism), founder of British association => nurture
Boyle
Boyles law (volume of gas varies with pressure upon it), influenced Locke
Cooper
-> politician patron friend -> Locke, first Earl of Shaftesbury
Molyneux
-> blind person vision -> distinguish cube rom sphere only vision -> Locke
Hobbes
notion of social contact & human reasoning form of mathematical calculation
Masham
scholar and friend of Locke, correspondence with Leibniz
Leibniz
world composed of dynamic entities -> monads, mind is marble (predisposition), binary arithmetic, calculation with machine -> influence computers
Spinoza
pantheism (god is universe) -> influence Leibniz
Leeuwenhoek
developer of microscope -> influenced Leibniz with life in drop of water
S.C. Palentine
youngest sister of EoB -> friend and supporter in Hannover
S. Charlotte
daughter of SCP friend of Leibniz & disciple
Berkeley
bishop applied Locke association principle to analyze depth perception
Hartley
tried integrating associations with neurophysiology -> ideas caused by vibrations in specific locations of brain and nerves
Mill
empiricism & associationism -> influenced son JSM
Stuart Mill
most important differences in people from associationistic & empiristic principles (not innate factors)
Gall
Brains importance in higher functioning -> phrenology
Willis
difference grey & white matter -> first accurate Anatomy of Brain
Lavater
-> promoted -> physiognomy (reading character in physique
Flourens
ablation in animals -> contradicting Gall, cortex a whole, cerrelebrum coord. & movement
Boulliard
language cortex in frontal cortex (no other localizations) -> influenced Aubertin
Aubertin
theory of speech localization -> brain injured soldier
Broca
tan patient -> sensory aphasia -> challenged Flourens idea -> speech function in left frontal brain region -> Broca area
Fritsch
motor strip -> electrical brain stimulation
Hitzig
motor strip -> electrical brain stimulation
Ferrier
-> demonstrated functionally distinct centers in cortex
Wernicke
localization theory for theory of aphasia -> area comprehension of speech -> Wernicke area
Franz
trained Lashley, ablation of cortex on cats -> method ablation and animal training
Lashley
study learning & memory ->ablation animals’ memory not localized but distributed
Bartholow
one of first to conduct electrical brain stimulation on conscious human
Penfield
brain stimulation -> find center of epilepsy -> interpretive cortex, showed how areas associated with sensation and memory
Milner
case study H.M. (lost capacity for STM) -> hippocampus role in forming recent memory, idea of LTM & working memory, declarative vs. procedural memory
Hebb
learning & other behaviors function of neurological networks -> assemblies
Kant
Noumenal vs. phenomenal world, active mind -> experiences in. term of innate intuitions & categories
Hume
laws of association by continuity & similarity, Causality?
Hemholtz
psychological mechanism + law of conservation of energy, speed of nerve signal transmission, perception, trichromatic color theory, perceptual adaptation & unconscious interference
Müller
maj. Founder of cognitive movement, info theory of language & promoted Chomsky, 7 items storable in memory, Harvard C. Cognitive Studies
Du Bois- Reymond
early mechanistic physiologist, electrochemical nature of nerve impulses, encouraged Helmholtz
Hering
-> colour-afterimage, theory of color vision
Gibson
depth perception innate
FEchner
-> measurement of relationship of subjective & physical stimulus -> psychophysics, absolute threshold S= k *log (P)
Weber
-> accurate discrimination of stimulus intensities -> depending of relative not absolute (jnd of weight)
Stevens
modified Fechner law to function -> accounting subjective e intensity increasing quicker
S=kP^n
Ehrenfels
concept of Gestalt qualities (squareness of square…) -> prefigured gestaltp.
Wertheimer
studied optical illusion, apparent movement, phi phenomena -> productive thinking theory promote, founder of Gestalt psychology
Koffka
-> founder of Gestalt psychology, principle of Gestalt Psychology -> standard exposition of movement
Köhler
founder of Gestalt psychology, insight in chimpanzee learning, promoted psychophysical isomorphism
Goldstein
applied Gestalt psychology to brain injuries (assessed holistically), self-actualization
Lewin
everyone resides in psyc. Field of totality of his psyc. Situation, pioneer in experimental social psychologist, action research, group dynamic
C. Darwin
naturalist, theory of evolution and natural selection
E. Darwin
doctor, inventor, poet, science, theory of evolution, grandfather Darwin
Henslow
recommended that Darwin went on voyage Beagle
Lyell
theory of uniformitarianism in relation to geology
Ussher
estimated the earth to be 6000 years old, correlated catastrophism theory
Paley
argument from design as objection to gradual evolution
Lamarck
species evolve & change by inheriting physical features resulting voluntary use
Malthus
writing on population. Growth -> inspired Darwin
Wallace
also had evolution theory through natural selection
Huxley
supported Darwins theory, defended him publicly
Spencer
survival of the fittest, promoted social Darwinsim
Romanes
used darwins data on animal behavior -> comparative psychology
Galton
hereditary intelligence & eugenics, foundation modern intelligence testing, behavior genetics, research twins
Quetelet
measurements from large population fell into normal distribution
DE Candolle
focused on cultural and environmental factors (more than hereditary)
Pearson
refined Galtons method od calculating coefficient of correlation (r)
Newman
major study on separated twins (30s)
Freeman
major study on separated twins (30s)