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elements of consciousness, mental apparatus
Titchener |
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functions of the mind, which may require multiple structures
James, Hall |
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how ideas become associated with one another in the mind, thereby resulting a form of learning
Pavlov, ebbinghaus |
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study perception and cognitive behavior as a whole
mental phenomena cannot be understood by breaking them down into parts
Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka |
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understood how people think. unlike gestalts, they wanted to break mental operation down into parts. how knowledge is learned, processed, and stored
Simon, G. Miller, Neisser |
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understand personality by studying the underlying drives and motivators that shape it from childhood. emphasis on pathology
Freud, Jung, Alder |
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Emphasizes conscious experience in personal development, free will, importance of human potential
Maslow, Rogers, May |
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from theory to operational construct
we assume some details matter while others do not. only the important details are operationalized.
a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents.
von Neumann: all life can be expressed as the flow of information |
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social darwinism
justification for why rich people should exploit poor people |
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Punctuated equilibrium
sudden changes in fossil record
what happened to the dinosaurs |
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behavioral paradigm
successful behavior produces fitness, and takes its gene pool with it
cooperation is important for survival as well as competition |
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genetic effects that dont run in families
several subcritical effects get together in the right/wrong combination, producing something dramatic |
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