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Believed that mind is separate from the body - knowledge is innate

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Plato and Socrates

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Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Believes that knowledge grows from Experience - not preexisting

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Aristotle

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Father of Modern Psychology - dissected animals -found brain fluids

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Descartes

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Introduced scientific method

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Francis Bacon

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Believed we are born as a blank slate

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Locke

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The view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses - senses flourish

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Empiricism

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Opened first lab in Germany

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Wundt

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Early psychology - looking inward to explore structure - Titchener

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Sturcturalism

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Opened first US lab

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Titchener

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Looking inward to explore human mind

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Introspection

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Focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - James

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Functionalism

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Developed functionalism - 1st US psychologist

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William James

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President of APA - studied under James

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Calkins

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PHD in psychology

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Washburn

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Looking through the eyes of the observer and eyes of doer of behavior

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Humanistic psychology

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Environment affects vs. genetics

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Nature vs. Nurture

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Survival of the fittest

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Natural selection

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Biological, psychological, social cultural perspectives

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Levels of Analysis

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How evolution affects psychology

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Evolutionary perspective

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Role of genetics on behavior

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Behavior genetics perspective

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Focuses on brain and nervous system

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Neuroscience perspective

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Study of unconscious mind

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Psychodynamic perspective

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Focused on learned behaviors

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Behavioral perspective

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Mental thought processes

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Cognitive perspective

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Awareness of individuals and how environment affects behavior

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Social cultural perspective

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Systematic study to gain a greater knowledge

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Basic research

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Scientific study applied to solve problems

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Applied research

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Uses biology to study behavior of humans

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Biological psychologists

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Study of changes that occur throughout the course of life

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Developmental psychologists

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Study of attention, language, memory, thinking

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Cognitive psychologists

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Study of variations in personality

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Personality psychologists

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Study of thoughts, behavior, feelings influenced by others

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Social psychologists

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Counseling process and outcome/prevention and health/ strengths and weaknesses

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Counseling psychology

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Assessment and treatment/ prevention of mental disorders

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Clinical psychology

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Study of treatment and mental illnesses

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Psychiatry

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