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History of Psych Final
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/17/2007

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Wundt
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Father of modern academic psychology
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Wundt
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volkerpsychologie and experimental Psychology
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Wundt
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apperception and perception
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Wundt
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basic unit of thought=general idea/impression
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Wundt
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4 categories: modes, qualities, intensities, durations
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Wundt
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structuralism-introspective approach
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Wundt
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primary goal=introspective analysisof conscious experience
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Volkerpsychologie
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any psych. that wants to understand human mind--->sudy what we produce---->music, cluture, family etc...

-real world human activity 

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introspection
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ones own subjective "inner experience"

-private, often unverifiable

 

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William James
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American Psychology
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William James
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Principles of Pychology-12 years to write
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William James
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First act of free will is to believe in free will.
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Jamesian Pragmatism
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evaluate and idea but not only technical--->moral
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James-Lange Theory of Emotion
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Emotion=consequence of bodily change
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William James
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Stream of Consciousness
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William James
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Precursor to Gestalt
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William James
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"psych. is not a science because it cannot be broken down and studied."
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William James
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taught at Harvard
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Watson
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most influential on Psychology
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Watson
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Psychology needs to be an objective natural science
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Watson
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denied distinction psychologically between animals and humans
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Watson
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psychology needs to predict and control, rather than just describe and explain
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Watson
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said that Wundtian psychology studies something that doesn't exist(consciousness)-it's fundamentally unobservable
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Watson
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overt behavior=becomes realm of psychology
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Watson
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no 'psyche" or "mind"---->merely behavior
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Watson
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innate emotions: fear, rage, love
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Watson
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Radical Environmenalism(who not what)
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Radical Environmentalism
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the environmental factors have greater importance than heredity or consitution in determining behavior
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Watson
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Baby Albert
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Skinner
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Operant Conditioning
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Skinner
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We engage in behavior all the time-our body just behaves-reflexive response- randomly happens

 

-sometimes there are consequences, either positive or negative and they increase or decrease the likelihood of that behavior reoccurring. 

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Freud
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We are governed by our emotions
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Freud
Definition

ego not the master of its own house.

master=id 

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Freud
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pleasure principle:

life instinct(sexual desire) or death instinct(violence)

 

He said at first that life instinct was most powerful...but changed his mind after WWII 

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Freud
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pleasure principle(instant) and reason principle(delayed)
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Freud
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manifest and latent content
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manifest content
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what you actually see in the dream
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latent content
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what the underlying meaning of your dream is
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Field theory
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start from the top down
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Freud
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cathartic method-vent about an incident, hypnosis to recall emotion-laden memory
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Freud
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psychoanalysis
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Primary
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unconscious
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secondary
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conscious
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victorianism
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proper moral conduct--->legs of piano=suggestion---->cover them up
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Gestalt
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"whole" "form" "configuration"
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Molar Approach
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concentrate on the phenomological experience(mental experience without further analysis, as it occurs to the naive observer)
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phenomenology
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study of that which naturally appears in consciousness
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Space form
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circle=same no matter what size or color etc...
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time form
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melody=same no matter what key or tempo
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Ehrenfels
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the whole dominates the parts(not the other way around)
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Wertheimer
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percieve motion where none existed(flip book)
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Koffka
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wrote article that made us think Gestalt was only perception
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Kohler
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chimps study

something about the toilet that Trammell told us in class...

toilet=where you get your insight...OH YA THATS WHAT IT WAS!

 

 

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Holism
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everything is related to everything---analysis starts from the top down....whole down to parts
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Pragnanz
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"essence"
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Pragnanz
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brain completes sensory experience
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perception, not senses
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starting place for experience, according to holism and the field theory physics
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positive/negative reinforcement
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trial and error: behaviorists
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cognitive- we think our way through
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trial and error:gestalts
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rejected it
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insight: behaviorists
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problems=solved or unsolved--->in the moment
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insight: gestalts
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thnk chickens learned grey(generalized)--->association
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transposition:Behaviorists
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chickens understand the relationship---peck the darker one
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transposition: gestalt
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Lewin
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Life space
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Lewin
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three conflicts: Approach-approach

avoidance-avoidance

approach -avoidance 

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approach-approach conflict
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two attractive options
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avoidance-avoidance
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two repulsive options
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approach-avoidance
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one goal but mixed feelings about it(example:steak is the best tasting but most expensive)
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Maslow
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Heirarchy of needs
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5. self actualization

4. esteemed 

3. belongingness

2. safety

1. hunger, thirst, sex 

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order of heirarchy of needs
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behaviorists and psychoanalysists
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don't get emotionally involved
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humanists
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no, be involved, be empathetic, understand them
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self-actualization
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don't rely on others doe gratitute
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Existentialists
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value autonomy but also responsibility

condemned by freedom 

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humanists
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downplay responsibility---problems not our fault
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Haeckel
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immorality is genetic
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Haeckel
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spartans for an example
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Haeckel
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capital punishment, euthenasia, suicide, aktium T4------>eugenics
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Haeckel
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abortion cleaned up undesirables
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Haeckel
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artificial selection perfects the brain
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Margaret Sanger
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Planned Parenthood
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Margaret Sanger
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cleanse humanity from physical and mental defects
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Margaret Sanger
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brith control=best eugenics method
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Margaret Sanger
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most important organs are the reproductive glands
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Kinsey
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research supposedly scientific
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Paul Singer
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evolutionary ethics of compassion is to overcome specieism

believed in bestiality 

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Sartre
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existence does not equal alive
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Sartre
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existence takes priority over essence(what something consists of)
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Sartre
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no innate nature
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Sartre
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man must create his own essense
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nihilist
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someone who thinks nothier means anything and everything is permissible
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Sartre
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life must have meaning but we must make it
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Sartre
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consciousness itself is nothing until it has been percieved
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isomorphism
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experienced order in space is always stucturally identical with a functional order in the distribution of underlying brain processes

 

(I have no idea what this means, it's just the definition I had from my reading...Care to clarify for me?) 

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Apperception
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how we percieve an experience based on past experience

 

(I don't have my notes from our study session and I forget how exactly we defined this. Email me and let me know maybe?) 

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Calkins
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First woman elected president of the APA
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Calkins
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Paired Associated technique
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Thorndike
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chickens and cats experiments
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Hall
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popularized "adolesence"
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Heidegger
Definition

ontology

being and time 

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Thorndike
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Law of Effect
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