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psychology
historic approach
Question | Answer |
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nativist | person who believes certain ideas or personalcharacteristics are innate or inborn (plato) |
empiricist | person who believes knowledge comes from experience with the enviornment (aristotle) |
rene descartes | nativist, dualist, believed some actions are done without thought (now called reflexes) |
dualism | the idea that the mind and body are 2 separate entities |
john locke | british empiricist, believed brain is a blank slate when born and knowledge comes from direct sensory experience |
Hermann von Helholtz | discovered that our actions are not instantaneous from the nerves to the brain, instead we have a reaction time |
Charles Darwin |