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Introduction and Chapter 1

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Aristole   Greek naturalist and philosopher who believed in nurture over nature  
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Plato   Thought traits were inborn  
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John Locke   Thought mind was blank at birth, 1600s  
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Descartes   Some ideas are innate, 1600s  
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Charles Darwin   Proposed natural selection  
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Birth of Pyschology as we know it   1879  
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Wilhelm Wundt   Pyscholoy's first experiment, testing time lags  
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Pyschology came from   Biology and philosophy  
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Ivan Pavlov   Study of learning, physiologist  
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Sigmund Freud   personality theorist, physician  
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Jean Piaget   Observer of children, biologist  
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William James   author of 1890 psychology tetbook, philosopher  
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Hermann Ebbinghaus   in germany reports first experiments on memory in 1885  
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Edward L. Thorndike   in the US confudcts the first experiments of animal learning in 1898  
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American Pyschological Association is founded   1892  
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Alred Binet and Theodore Simonq   devise the first intelligence test for us with Parisian schoolchildren in 1905  
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Margaret Foy Washburn   the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psycholog, synthesizes research on animal behavior in The Animal Mind 1908  
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Mary Whiton Clakins   created paired-assocaites tencqieu fro studying memeoryl because president of American Psychological Association president  
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John B. Watson   in the US champions psychology as the science of behavior  
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Wundt's basic research tool   introspection  
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Introspection   self-examination of one's own emotional states and mental processes  
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psychology   the science of behavior and mental processes  
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Until the 1920's psychology was defined as   the science of mental life  
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From the 1920s to the 1960s dismissed   introspection  
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From the 1920s to 1960s, psychology was definsed as   the sciecne of observable behavior  
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Behavior is   anthing an organsm does, ny action we can observe and record  
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Mental pocesses are   the internal subjective experineces we infer from behvior--sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts beliefs and feelings  
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Pyschology's quest is to   describe and explain nature  
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Neuroscience   how the body and brain create emotions, memories and sensory experiences  
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Evolutionary   How natural selection favors traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes  
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Behavioral Genetics   how much do our genes and our environment influence our individual differences  
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Behavioral   how we learn observable responses  
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Cognitive   how we process, store and retrieve information  
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Social-cultural   how behavior and thinking vart across situations and cultures  
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Psychology's Big Issues   Stability v. Change, Rationality v. Irrationality, Nature v. Nurture  
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Stabilit v. Change   Do we become ovlder versions of our same old selves or do people change?  
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Rationality v. Irrationality   how wise are we? we can recongie patterns but sometimes we have insufficient rationality. we believe anecdotres over facts  
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Nature v. Nurture   are intelligence, personality, obestity and psychological disorders influence by heredity or environment? are gender differneces bioloically predsposed or socially constructed?  
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Psychology's Subfields   Basic research, applied reearch, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists  
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Basic research   builds psychology's knowledge base  
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