Pre-history / History Flashcards by Nitya Kansal

Psychology

Study of behaviour and the mind

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Behaviour

Natural process subject to natural laws –> observable actions of a person / animal

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Mind

Sensation of memories, motives, emotions, thoughts, and other subject phenomena particular to individual / animal

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Dualism

Divides the world & all things within into 2 parts: body & spirit

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Brain vs. Mind

Brain: command center of the central nervous system
Mind: Sensation of subject phenomena

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René Descartes & dualism

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John Locke & empiricism

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Tabula Rasa

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Thomas Hobbes & materalism

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Charles Darwin & evolutionary theory

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Natural Selection

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Wilhelm Wundt & structuralism

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Edward Titchener & introspection

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William James & functionalism

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Dorothea Dix

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Mary Whiton Calkins

Margret Floy Washburn

G. Stanley Hall

Humanistic Approach

Abraham Maslow & self-actualization