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Plato

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Student of Socrates, concluded that mind is separable from body and continues after death, knowledge is innate-born within us

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Psychology

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Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Socrates

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Concluded that mind is separable from body and continues after death, knowledge is innate-born within us

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Aristotle

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Platos student, the soul is not separable from the body, knowledge is not pre-existing

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Descartes

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Agreed with Socrates and Plato about the existence of pre-existing ideas and the mind being “entirely distinct from the body”

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Francis bacon

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One of the founders of modern science. His influence lingers in today’s psychological science. Scientific method

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John Locke

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British political philosopher-mind at birth is a blank slate. Wrote the essay “an essay concerning human understanding”

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Empiricism

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The view of knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Middle age professor, created an experimental apparatus. Measured the time lag between people’s hearings ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key (reaction speed). Wanted to measure “atoms of the mind”

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Structuralism

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An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind

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Edward titchener

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Introduced structuralism, testing peoples ability to test basic items with their senses

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Introspection

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Looking inward

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function. How they enable the organism to adapt survive and flourish

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William James

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Encouraged explorations of down to earth emotions, memories, will power, habits and moment-moment consciousness

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Mary calkins

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APA first female president. Tutored by William James, out scored all males on exams, Harvard denied her degree, offering her a degree from Radcliffe, she denied the degree

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Margret Floy Washburn

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Wrote “the animal mind” 2nd female APA president in 1921. 2nd lady to get ph.D and actually received the degree

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Humanistic psychology

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Emphasized the growth/importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential and the importance of meeting our needs for loves and acceptance

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Nature-nurture issue

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Different views from biology to psychological to social-culture for analyzing any given phenomenon

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Natural selection

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Nature selects those that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment

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Levels of analysis

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Looking at the different biological levels of an organism

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Evolutionary perspective

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How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of ones genes

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Behavior genetic perspective

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Study how heredity and experience influence our individual difference in temperament

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Neuroscience perspective

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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences

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Psychodynamic perspective

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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

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Behavioral perspective

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How we learn observable responses

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Cognitive perspective

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How we encode, process, store and retrieve information

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Social cultural perspective

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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

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Basic research

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Builds on psychologys knowledge base

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Applied research

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Studies that aim to solve practical problems

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Biological psychologists

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Exploring the links between brain and mind

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Development psychologists

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Studying our changing abilities from womb-tomb

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Cognitive psychologists

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Experimenting with how we perceive, think and solve problems

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Personality psychologists

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Investigating our persistent traits

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Social psychologists

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Exploring how we view and affect one another

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Counseling psychology

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Assists people with problems in living (school, work, marriage)

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Clinical psychology

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Studied, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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Psychiatry

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Branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatment as we’ll as psychological therapy

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