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BJU General Psychology Unit 1
Module 1-4, 5, 17
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/18/2010

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Hippocrates
Definition
Brain controls body
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Plato
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classifies personality
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Aristotle
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location of the mind is in the heart
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Galileo
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systematic study
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Isaac Newton
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made math the language of science
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Rene Descartes
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what is the mind?
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John Locke
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How do we know?
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Immanuel Kant
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critical of psychology because it is not observable or measurable
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William Harvey
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circulation of blood, applied experimental rigor of physicists to other disciplines
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Luigi Galvani
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discovered electrical effects on the nervous system
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Wilhelm Wundt
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established thr first psychology laboratory in 1879
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1879
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first psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt
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Edward Titchner
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structuralism- elemental structures of the mind
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William James
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functionalism- emphasized purpose and function
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Sigmund Freud
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psychoanalysis- unconscious determinism
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John B. Watson & B. F. Skinner
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behaviorism
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Abraham Maslow & Carl Rogers
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humanism
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Modern Definition of Psychology
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the science of behavoir (what we do) and mental processes (sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings)
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