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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
03/05/2013

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Descartes
Definition

interactionist

rationalism based on senses (not faith/dogma)

human/animal behavior mechanical

Nativist

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Hobbes
Definition

British Empiricism

Passive mind

Mind/body governed by physical laws

Separated philosophy from theology

Aristotle- Blank tablet, Primary (sensation) and secondary (perceptions) qualities

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Locke
Definition

British empiricism

Passive mind

Blank slate (experience shapes us)

Perception= minds awareness of contents

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Berkeley
Definition

British empiricist/idealist

mind/perception creates reality

Challenged Descartes nativism (through depth perception)

 

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Hume
Definition

Empiricist., idealist, associationist, reductionist

senses>ideas>comples idease>synthesize association=truth

Laws of association govern mind

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Hartley
Definition

-Associationist, empiricist, contiguity explains memory

-in/voluntary actions, mechanistic

-Attacked Descartes hydraulic model in favor of "Doctrine of Vibrations" (nervous system ran as result of vibrations, if nerves are damaged they block this vibration)

 

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James Mill
Definition

Empiricist, associationist, determinist, mechanist, materialist

-passive mind

structuralism and mental chemistry, Gestalt

-No free will

-Take what is complex and synthecize it til it is simpler (like occams razor?)

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John Stuart Mill
Definition

-Extends empiricism to mental chemistry

-Forerunner of Gestalt/structuralism with water analogy

-Conscious experience function of sensations

-Feminist

-Rare but randomly creative thoughts can emerge vs recycling of old thoughts

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Newton
Definition

-Universal mental and physical laws

-White light made of spectrum

 

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Spinoza
Definition

Active mind based on empiricism (experience)

-Mechanistic/material mind

-God unity of mind and matter

-Double aspectist

-Not interactionist (emotions native)

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Compte
Definition

-Empiricist/mechanist

-Positivism

-Must study observable behavior only

-Founder of "sociology"

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Kant
Definition

Time, space, causality, and unity were native

-Positivism

-a priori intuitions, active in determing thoughts/behavior

-Psychology cant be a science because the mind cant objectively study itself

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Leibniz
Definition

-Very nativistic

-Mind and body are seperate monads (pure quality that is impossible to reduce)

-Pre-established harmony

 

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La Mettrie
Definition

-Materialistic, mechanistic (Descartes) mind from empiricist view

-Mind and body were in unity (his sickness affected both)

-Soul is not real, only mind )hands off church)

-Against active mind

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Herbart
Definition

-Psychology cannot be experimental science, mind cant be objectively studied, only through math

-Wanted psychology to be different from philosophy/physiolgy

-Ideas dont stop existing they just fall to the unconsciou

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Condillac
Definition

-Influenced by Descartes/Locke, mental activity reduced to sensory experience

-Passive mind

-Physiolog will bring truth about nature of mind

-Undermined Descartes nativism

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Reid
Definition

-Gave rise to localization of intellectual functions of the brain

-27 faculties of the brain

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