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LACI MCADOW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plato | Greek philosopher, student of socrates, ideas are innate, we wre born with them |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher, platos student, mind is a blank state, we are compeltely impressionable by our environment, learn by careful observation |
| Descartes | Philosopher, scientist, agreed with socrates and plato about the existence of innate ideas, wondered how the mind and body communicate, would dissect animals to find answers |
| Locke | British political philosopher, the mind is a blank state, what we know comes from experience and observations and experimentation enable scientific knowledge |
| Wundt | Father of psychology, goal was to study how the elements of the mind were organized and related to one another, used introspection-looking inward, considering ones owns decisions and thinking |
| Titchener | Wundts student, helped creat the idea of structuralism, goal was to classify and understand element of the minds structure |
| James | 1st American psychologist, known for the idea of functionalism |
| Calkins | A student of william james, earned phd but denied due to being a woman, 1st female president of the american psychological association |
| Washburn | 1st female to receive phd in psychology, wrote the book “the animal mind” |
| Dix | Considered the 1st advocate for those suffering with mental illness, created first mental asylum |
| Hall | American student of wundts, established the 1st formal us psychology lab at john hopkins university |
| Wertheimer | Founder of the gestalt psychology, gestalt belief-the whole is greater/different than the sum of its parts |
| Carl rogers and abraham maslow | Humanistic psychlogicts-draw attention to ways that current environmental influences can nurture our growth potential and having our needs of love and acceptance satisfied |
| John b watson and bf skinner | Rejected introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior |
| Charles darwin | Natural selection, explored how mental and behavioral processes function |
| Freud | Psychology emphasizes the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior |
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