AP Psych
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volleycay3 on August 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Socrates & Plato | viewed mind and body as separable |
| Aristotle | knowledge comes from experiences |
| Augustine | body influences mind & mind influences body |
| Descartes | some ideas are innate |
| Bacon | founder of modern science |
| Locke | mind at birth is a blank state |
| Wundt | founded 1st psychological laboratory in 1879 |
| Titchener | introduced school of structuralism; method of introspection explore basic elements of mind |
| James | introduced the school of functionalism: mental and behavioral processes; emphasized idea of pragmatism |
| Calkins | first female president of American Psychological Association |
| Washburn | Ph.D. in psychology |
| philosophy and biology | historical roots of psychology |
| Pavlov | pioneered study of learning |
| Freud | personality theorist |
| Piaget | studied children |
| James | 1890 psychology textbook author |
| mental life | earliest years |
| observable behavior | redefined as... |
| behavior and mental processes | author of text define psychology as.... |
| behavior | any action that we can observe and record |
| mental processes | subjective experiences we can infer from behavior |
| stability vs change rationality vs irrationality nature vs nurture | Three major issues that cut across psychology |
| Darwin | believe in natural selection |
| stability vs change | persist/change |
| rationality vs irrationality | logical and efficient |
| nature vs nurture | biology and experience |
| preview read think review | PRTR |
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