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Association: The notion that knowledge results from linking or associating simple ideas to form complex ideas
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Complex Ideas: derived ideas compounded of simple ideas and therefore can be analyzed or reduced into their simpler components
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Contextual Forces of Psychology: Economic Opportunity, War, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Derived Ideas: Ideas that arise from the direct application of an external stimulus
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Descartes: Philosopher interested in applying scientific knowledge to practical concerns
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Determinism: The doctrine that acts are determined by past events
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Empiricism: The pursuit of Knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to experience
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Functionalism: System of Psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in an organism's adaptation to its environment
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George Berkley: A Philosopher who believed all knowledge was a function of - or depended on - the experiencing or perceiving person
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Innate Ideas: Ideas produced out of the mind/consciousness
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James Mill: aimed to demonstrate that the mind was nothing more that a machine
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John Locke: Philosopher primarily concerned with cognitive functioning. Rejected idea of innate ideas, instead believed in tabula rasa
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lost, misplaced, suppressed, distorted, self-serving: Reason why data for history of psychology is not the objective, type of a typical hard science. Data can be:
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Materialism: The Doctrine that considers the facts of the Universe to be sufficiently explained by the existence and nature of matter
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Mentalism: The Doctrine that all knowledge is a function of mental phenomena and is dependent on the perceiving or experiencing person
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Naturalistic Theory: Theory that progress and changes in scientific history are attributable to the zeitgeist, which makes a culture receptive to some ideas, but not others
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Personalistic Theory: Theory that progress and changes in scientific history are attributable to the ideas of unique individuals
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Positivism: The Doctrine that recognizes only natural phenomena or facts that are objectively observable
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Primary Qualities: Characteristics such as size and shape that exist in an object whether or not we perceive them
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Reductionism: The doctrine that explains phenomena on a level in terms of phenomena on another level
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Secondary Qualities: Characteristics such as colour and odour which exist in our perception of the object
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Simple Ideas: elemental ideas that arise from sensation and reflection
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Structuralism: System of Psychology which dealt with conscious experience as dependent on experiencing persons
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The mind-body problem (Descartes used a mind-body interaction model): The question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities (Descartes' most important work)
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The Spirit of Mechanism: The image of the universe as a great machine. A doctrine which held that all natural processes are mechanically determined and are capable of being explained by physics and chemistry
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Zeitgeist: Name for the environment of thought, the intellectual climate of the times
