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Charles Darwin |
British biologist who introduced the ideas of natural selection and evolution and argued that specific behaviors evolved because they led to advantages in survival or reproduction " it's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor is it the most intelligent, but rather the most responsive to change" |
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Herman Von Helmoltz |
German physiologist who demonstrated that the movement of impulses in the nerves and the brain was not instances but instead took small but finite amount of time |
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Plato |
Greek philosopher who proposed that some ideas are innate. Founder of the acadamy in Athens " Only The Dead have seen the end of War" "Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" "Music is a moral law it gives the soul the universe, Wings to the mind flights to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything" |
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John Locke |
British empricist philosopher who argued that mankind is a blank slate at Birth. One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and most commonly known as a father of liberalism. "What worries you Masters you." "We are like chameleons that take the color of our moral character from those who are around us." "Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours" |
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Wilhelm wundt |
German physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science open the first psychology research laboratory in 1979 " We speak of virtue, honor, reason, but thought does not translate any one of these Concepts into a substance" |
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Introspection |
Looking inward in attempt to study feelings and Sensations, examination of observation of One's Own mental and emotional processes. |
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Empiricist |
A person who believes that knowing comes from experience with the environment and is derived from the senses. |
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Aristotle |
Greek philosopher who proposed theories to explain many aspects of human behavior supported empiricist view that all knowledge comes from sensory experiences |
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Behaviorisim |
Theoretical perspective that emphasizes the study of observable behaviors especially as they pertain to the process of learning |
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Dualism |
The idea that the mind and body are two separate entities |
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Psychology |
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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Nativist |
A person who believes that certain characteristics and ideas are innate or inborn. The theory opposite called the blank State or the tabula rasa. |
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Rene Descartes |
French nativist philosopher proponent of dualism argued that threads with the body control movement and some behaviors occur without thought "I think therefore I am" "It is not enough to have a good mind the main idea is to use it well" |
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Postpartum psychosis |
is a rare psychiatric emergency in which symptoms of high mood and racing thoughts (mania), depression, severe confusion, loss of inhibition, paranoia, hallucinations and delusions set in, beginning suddenly in the first two weeks after childbirth. The symptoms vary and can change quickly. |
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