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