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History & Systems
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/18/2014

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Authority
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The Major task is to discern the truths of which you are already in possession. The sin is pride while virtue is viewed as conformity.
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Revelation
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Refers to a message regarded as supernatural communication
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Tradition
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preserve customs and practices that have been proved to be successful or sacred
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legalism
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truth defined by legal codes of human orgin
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empiricism
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engage in careful observation and to record. "A certain amount of pride is virtue"
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pragmatism
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emphasizes utility and workability. Emphasizes truth in context
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Aestheticism
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"truth is beauty and beauty is truth" even scientists recognize a beautiful theory or model when they see one
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dogmatisim
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in the end we're all caught up in circularity or in tautologies (saying the same thing twice but in different words)
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Interactionism
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A mind body position emphasizing the ontological status of both mind and body. The mind can influence the body and vise versa
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epiphenomenalism
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belief that physical events give rise to the mental world. Mental events are completely dependent on physical functions and have no independent status
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materialism
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belief that all real things are composed exclusively of matter. There is no mind body problem
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Idealism
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emphasizing mind or spirit as the preeminent feature of life. Contrasts with materialism
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double-aspect monism
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the availability of 2 languages to describe the same phenomenon
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psychophysical parallelism
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independent existence of mental and physical events. They never influence each other nor interact. Example: 2 clocks give the same time but are completely independent
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nominal explanations
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association of a thing with a word. Can one word really explain everything?
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free will
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Considered to be scientifically vague, does it really explain anything? Aren't nagging doubts justified?
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trans natural explanations
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"this illness was an act of God or the work of the devil" But does this really explain anything?
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analogy
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proportion or equality of ratio
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explanation by reduction
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reinforcement is any stimulus that reduces a need, a stimulus that increases the probability of a response
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unconscious forces
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freud and others
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aristotles 4 causes
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Material, efficient, formal, final
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Who said: "you cannot set your foot down in the same stream twice, indeed you can't set your foot down in the same stream once because different waters flow over it each second
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Heraclitus
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A psychology of being is to a psychology of becoming as:
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Parmenides is to Heraclitus
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The reality of motion is called into question in the work of a ______.
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Zeno
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___________ might reasonably be credited as one of the founders of homeostatic theory
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Aesara
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_________ argued that the atom is the fundamental reality and that an atom could not be divided or split
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Democritus
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_________ argued that fire, earth, air and water combine with love and strife in casual ways
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Empedocles
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Who was the first to advocate an empirical medicine and is remembered for his work on the optic nerve
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Alcmaeon
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Coined the work "philosophy"
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Pythagoras
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Famous for advancing a medicine without demons and for the first known work in the west on medical ethics
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Hippocrates
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Argued against absolutism and for the idea that all things are relative
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Protagoras
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Who was the founder of the skeptical school of thought
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Pyrrho
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She was a member of the neo-platonic school and possibly one of the first to employ music therapy
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hypatia
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choleric is to sanquine as
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quick tempered is to cheerful
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"soul is not the universe, rather the universe is in the soul"
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Plotinus
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Which of the following is not true about the Romans
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They were interested largely in how to live the good life
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the stoic school of thought, founded by Zeno of Cyprus emphasized
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discipline, self-control and lawfullness
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the middle age period extended from...
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1300-1500
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Describe the great plague of 1347
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The church was unable to protect the people
there were sanitation problems
has been brought about by evil
Geo-centrism is challenged
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Name a significant event during the renaissance era
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It was the birth of the printing press: brought enlightenment because reading and writing is emerging
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Epistemology is based on
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divine revelation, authority and tradition
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Naive realism
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absence of skepticism about human powers to know the spiritual world
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truth resides in the __________
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past
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other-worldliness
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task is to prepare for the afterlife. Theology queen of sciences
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geocentric cosmology
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church embraced cosmology of Ptoolemy
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Scholasticism
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"rigorous logic" applied to questions later viewed as trivial
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reign of final causality
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all things work to fufil the inscrutable of God
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Reign of quality
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in modern times, the emphasis would change to quantity
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asceticism
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severe self dicipline
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Achievements of the middle ages
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rebirth of universities, hospitals, glasses, clock, magnetized needles, gunpowder, new glues, dyes, paints, great architecture
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crusades
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a series of Holy wars launched by the Christian States of Europe
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Augustine
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unconscious thoughts, memory, habit breaking
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Rhazes
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power of music therapy
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Avicenna
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Canon of Medicine, bring together Islamic faith
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Alhazen
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life doesn't project from the eye, leading theorist
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averroes
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Incoherrence of Incoherence, goes against Alghazali
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Maimonides
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faith vs reason, go for reason
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Peter Abelard
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Yes & No, used scripture for argument
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roger bacon
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causes of human ignorance: habit, authority figs
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dante
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the divine comedy
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Thomas Aquinas
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Aristotelian, impricisim
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Al Ghazali
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"incoherents of philosophers" Book on faith vs reason, faith wins. Attacks the idea of causality. God is behind EVERYTHING.
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Thales of Miletus
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argued for naturalistic instead of religious interpretations of the world
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Anaximander of Miletus
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Student of Thales, argued that a formless stuff called apeiron (without boundary) is the basis of all things. 1st evolutionary theorist
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Anaximenes
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air is primal substance and air becomes other things through condensation and rarefaction
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Pythagoras of Samos
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coined the word philosophy meaning the love of wisdom. Believed number to be the basis of all things
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Theana
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wife of Pythagoras played key roles in a philosophical society formed by Pythagoras
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Myia
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daughter of pythagoras and theana, provided earliest advice on the care of infants
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Aesara
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argues that physical health is the result of harmony (health & Wellness)
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Xenophanes
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early skeptic who challenged the distinction between knowlege and opinion
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Parmenides
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argued that reason is a more reliable guide to knowlege than the senses. Bing vs becoming or rationalism vs empiricism
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Zeno of elea
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paradoxes of motion- tortoise and the hair, reason suffers
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Heraclitus
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opposed to parmenides. Change is only reality
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Leucippus and Democritus
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the atom is the fundamental reality and that the atom cant be divided or split
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Protagoras
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early relativist, a foil for Socrates
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Homeostasis
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steady state and maintaining it
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Alcmaeon
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Disections, needs to know the body
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Empedoles
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fire, earth, air and water (4 elements), believed in evolution
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What resulted in expanding geographic knowledge in the renaissance era
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the expansion of intellectual perspectives
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What resulted in the reformation of the Protestant movement
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religious wars, growth of skepticism
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What developed during the Renaissance era
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the studies of the heavens, plant and animal kingdoms and challenged old world views that had been based on authority
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What thrived during the renaissance era
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new art and music, street music became popular
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What invention developed during the renaissance era
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the printing press, increased interest in reading and writing
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Machiavelli
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Founder of political and military science, very good speaker
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Juan Luis Vives
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Some argue he was the first psychologist. embraced the idea of empirical psychological studies
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Michel de Montaigne
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Founder of "the essay", attacks reason, sensory knowledge
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Olivia Sabuco
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First book on psychology: New Philosophy on the Nature of Man. Filled with info on the emotions and the value of harmony
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Stoicism
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founded by Zeno of Cypress, dicipline, delf-denial and supression
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Epicureanism
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diciplined pleasure and expression as positive goods
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Skepticism
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idea that for every argument there is a counterargument, do not be gullible
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neo-platonism
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emphasis on the corruption and transcience of the material world and on the deceptive nature of the senses
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Galen
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subscribed to the 4 humor theory (black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm)
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Pneuma concept of the soul
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respiration and air are the key to life processes
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divisions of the soul
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natural spirit-diguestion
vital spirit-located in the heart
animal spirit- thought processes
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Hypatia
Definition
1st to use music therapy for emotional disturbances
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Fall of rome
Definition
penalty for military success- more and more money was required to maintain a vast military machine
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