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who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Lamarck
Who discovered the diversity of life?
Darwin
Preferred to study not just the fossil but the psychological unity of the organic world
Haeckel
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
development repeats evolution (Haeckel)
To study animals in the natural world
Ethology
To study animals in the closest environment to the natural environment
Richness Orientation- Romaines
Forerunner of functionalism
Spencer
Believed in the survival of the fittest
Spencer
The debate regarding evolution
Huxley vs. Wilberforce
Time period in which they found out the cells exist
1600s-1700s
Discovered the nervous system has "electrical" properties
Galvani
Who contested Galvani's theory?
Volton- the nervous system is more electrical biology than electric
Used the silver salt staining method to see one neuron in a few hundred. Through this process saw the brain had cells as well.
Golgi
Discovered cells are different shapes
Golgi
Elucidate the actual neuron
Ramon y Cajal, Nansen, Waldeyer
A reductionist outlook that studied the relationship between world and subjective impression
Psychophysics
Coined the term Psychophysics
Fechner
Used the aesthesiometer to study cutaneous sensitivity
Weber
Measured the speed of the neural speed
Helmholtz
Name of theory whose equations could be be solved emphasized by psychophysics
Chaos Thoery
Wundt's definition of psychology
"Facts of Consciousness"
Believed in mental elements, sensations combine into percepts and ideas
Wundt
Passive combinations are associations. Active combinations are ________
Apperceptions
This psychophysist who wanted to move more into psychology wanted to study feelings and creative synthesis
Wundt- his method fails
Reason why Wundt's introspection failed
Difficult to train in something that does not make sense. Science must be:1. Public2. Replicable
Brought Wundt ideas to the United States
Titchner
Founder of Structuralism
Titchner
A field of psychology that studies the elements of the mind.
Structuralism
Titchener defines psychology as the _____
The elements of the mind
Believed that psychological realities are built of elements: sensations form perceptions, which form ideas affections form emotions
Titchener
Believed in the primary vs secondary attention
Titchener- primary is automatic secondary is voluntary
Believed association as governed completely by the law of contiguity
Kitchener-Connections are learned when stimuli are arranged as effective cues for response.
Believed in Wholism
Brentano
Late 19th century rejection of psychology's reduction to physiology
Brentano
Studied experiments on psychophysics and perseveration
Muller-Strict
Believed in the higher processes, e.g the mental set
Kulpe- looked border, a holistic view
Studied the following sensations quality intensity clearness, duration
Titchener
Stated that one had to define their terms of what is real
Brentano
opposed Brentano's Wholism
Muller-Strict
Believed experience provides the material for reflection
Descartes
Entity is harmonious with universe
monad
Believed man to be like a clock, synchronized
Leibniz's monadology
A belief that nature never leaps
Uniformatarianism
Referred psychology as the rational analysis of the soul
Wolff
Believed knowledge begins with sensory experience. However percepts are given to us by concepts
Kant (1700)
Proved muscles do not inflate and therefore proved the soul is not in the muscle
Swammerdam
Discredited Descartes by showing the pineal gland does not lean and there is one in animals
Stensen
Discovered reflexes can occur in decapitated frogs but not if spinal cord is destroyed
Hales (1700s)
Showed the decapitated human also can't sense or think
Unzer
Enlarged on Hales, distinguished voluntary from involuntary movements
Whytt (The conscious act is directly related to the voluntary act in the real world.
Believed clarity of thought as function of body temperature.
LaMettrie
Quarreling partners who discovered the motor function of the ventral root
Bell and Magendie- observed through simple irritation
Believed sensory energies are specific to their modalities
Muller (1800s) - pressing eyelid
Studied the speed of impulse
Helmholtz
Discovered the normal curve applied by Quetelet
Gaus
Victorian Science-Studied regression, correlation, scattergrams
Galton
Was able to study the correlation of the inheritance of genius
Galton
Epochs and change- similarities among animals and their common ancestries
Buffon (1700s)
Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism
Lyell vs Cuvier
Founder of geography, nature never repeats
Lyell