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History & Systems
People
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
01/30/2008

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Aristotle
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Knowledge is gained from observation
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Bell
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cut nerves to see what happens
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Bernheim
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follower of mesmer in nancy school
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Boring
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student of Wundt and Titchener in mentalism; said exp. psyc. more important than applied
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Braid
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first to suggestion that mesmerism was actually hypnotism
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Broca
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studied tans brain; found area of speech
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Charcot
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famous neurologist in time of mesmer
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Descartes
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founder of modern philosophy; cogito ergo sum, rationalist, nativist, dualist, mechanist, interactionist; first physiological psych
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Donders
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used RTs to study mental processes
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Fechner
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wanted to prove panpsychism but sorta ended up the opposite
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Flourens
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used lesion technique
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Franklin
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Gall
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started phrenology
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Galen
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developed humoral hypothesis of personality
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Galvani
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frogs leg nerve conduction
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Gassner
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against mesmer using exorcism
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Hales
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demonstrated reflexes are controlled by spinal cord
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Hartley
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Helmholtz
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physicist; conservation of energy; nerve conduction velocity; mind organizes sensations into learned categories
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Hippocrates
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father of modern medicine, humoral theory of health
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Hume
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big into the lack of causality
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Kagan
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Kant
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mind organizes sensations into innate categories
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La Mettrie
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Liebeault
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helped found nancy school; liked magnetism/hypnotism but used a tamer more pc version
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Leibniz
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infinity of subconscious experiences that influence behavior
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Locke
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Magendie
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anterior posterior motor sensory
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Mesmer
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started mesmerism
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Mill (James and John Stuart)
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Muller
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thought nerve conduction was instantaneous
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Plato
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reason vs. will vs. desire
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Schwann
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identified cells and neurons
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Socrates
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midwife of thought
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Spurzheim
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worked with gall
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"Tan"
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brain studied by broca
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Vesalius
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figured out lots of stuff by dissection
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Weber
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first work on jnd's
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Wernicke
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found wernickes area
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