Psychology Ch 1-4

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"a GOOD college education is the hardest job you will ever love"

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John F. Kennedy

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Plato (Nativist)

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Believed all ideas from the mind are INNATE. The mind governs the body, but is separate from the body.

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Aristotle (Nurturist)

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Believed the heart is the center.
Does not believe in innate abilities, but rather a psyche or "soul".
Male is the genetic provider or "Preformation Theory."

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John Locke (Nurturist)

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Wrote TABULA RASA.
Wrote AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.
Thought Parents should be the educators.

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"Blank Slate"

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People are born with nothing, they learn everything from their parents.
Physically hurting people doesn't do any good.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau (Nativist)

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Wrote EMILLE. (Tarzanish)
Believed people were inherently born with the knowledge of good and evil.
Society is EVIL.

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Charles Darwin (Nativist)

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Nature is the provider of all.
Wrote ORIGIN OF SPECIES, which changed the world's view on natural selection.

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Sir Francis Galton (Nativist)

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Wrote HEREDITARY GENIUS.
Linked prayer to spiritual well being.
Thought yawning was the brain trying to generate because you are interested.

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William Wundt - German physiologist and Philosopher

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Established the 1st laboratory for study of psychology in 1879.
The founder of Psychology as an Experimental Science.

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William Wundt defined Psychology as:

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Scientific study of conscious experience.

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William Wundt wrote:

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Principles of Physiological Psychology and said "scientific psychology is an alliance between physiology and psychology and not philosophy.

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Edward Titchener

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Structuralism is born! Opened the 1st major school of psychology.
Conscious experiences broken down into elemental structures of sensations and feelings are now critical to cognitive psychology.

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Introspection

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Process that identifies the structures of conscious thought by careful, systematic observations of one's own conscious experiences.

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G. Stanley Hall

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1st American in philosophy.
Believes children are the greatest gift.
Made statistic popular.
Started the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY in 1887.
Organized and founded the APA in 1883***.
Important American Psychologist at John Hopkins.

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William James (Nativist)

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Founded Functionalism.
Critical Point: INVESTIGATED THE FUNCTION OR PURPOSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Wrote Principles of Psychology
Established Psychology as a science.

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Functionalism faded...

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But it brought about Applied Psychology and Behaviorism.