Psychology Notes Test 1 Flashcards
Primitive Stage
Roots from folklore, mythology, entities
Animism
Belief that spirits are everywhere
Early Greek Influence
Non-scientific, not much investigation
Plato
Religious man, conceived the idea that everyone has a soul (miniature embodiment of the Greek city-state)
“Reason rule over desire”
Aristotle
Closest to a true scientist
Psychology in the Middle Ages
Church was the source of all knowledge
Galileo
Criticized by the church
Opened the way for true science by discovering the telescope
Francis Bacon
Social psychologist
Advocate for practical/empirical thinking
Descartes
Developed the mind-body theory that stated that the mind and the physical world only interact at the pineal gland
“I think, therefore I am.”
Pineal Glad
Associated with melatonin
Located at the base of the brain
Von Helmholtz
Involved in experimental psychology
Measured the speed of nerve impulses
Came up with the theory of vision and hearing
Fechner
Involved in psychophysics
Studied relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli and the sensations they produce
17th Century
Age of Enlightenment
18th Century
Age of Reason
19th Century
Age of Progress
20th Century
Age of Anxiety
21st Century
Age of Technology
Saul
Suffered manic depressive episodes/bipolar disorder
Cambyses
First alcoholic on record
Nebuchadnezzar
Delusional disorder
Thought he was a wolf/lycanthropy
Hercules
Suffered from a seizure disorder
Ajax
Experienced hallucinations
Tamerlane
Fetish for women’s underwear
George III
Acute mania
Rousseau
“Back to nature”
Mozart
Paranoia
Beethoven
Paranoia
Van Gogh
Seizure disorder
Asylums
Set up in Spain
Influenced by the Moors
Demonology
Common during the Middle Ages
Caused conversion disorders
Avicenna and Rhazes
Doctors that kept demonology out of Arabia
Willing Possession
Cohort of Satan
Unwilling Possession
Punishment from God
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
Came up with the personality theory (every man is a miniature embodiment of air, earth, fire, and water)
Very into vivisection and letting blood