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15 Cards in this Set
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Plato
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Believe in "Nature", pre-existing knowledge
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Aristotle
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Believed in "Nurture", learn through experiences and tabula rasa
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Descartes
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Believed in Dualism, Mind influences body, but not the other way
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Gall
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Invented Phrenology
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Helmholtz
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Created reaction-time experiemnt
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Weber
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Just noticeable difference, studied personal judgement
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Wundt
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First lab in Germany, 1879.
"Principles of Physiological Psychology" |
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James
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First lab in America, 1875.
"Principles of Psychology" |
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Freud
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Psychoanalytic coach, came up with the unconscious. Negative advice
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Skinner
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Skinner box! Not what happens before (stimulus) but what happens after (reward)
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Chomsky
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Cognitive account of language acquisition, butted heads with Skinner
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Milgram
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obedience to authority figures, experiment with teacher and student
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Broca
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Famous for Broca's area-Location in the brain where, if damaged, causes impairments in language production but not comprehension
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Wernicke
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Wernicke's Area- Opposite of Broca's, responsible for understanding of language
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Neisser
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Significant figure in the development of cognitive science and the shift from behaviorist to cognitive models in psychology
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