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They began to study human behavior and came up with a conclusion that people were domiated by their own minds. BC
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Earth was not the center of the universe, and it actually revolved around the sun.
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Used star positions to confirm movement based on Copernicus's work.
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Disagreed with the idea of dualism and proposed that a link existed between the mind and the body.
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Taught the first class of psychology at Harvard University.
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Started his Laboratory of Pschology in Leipzig, Germany. Acknowledged as creating modern psychology as a seperate, formal field of study.
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Often called the "father of psychology" in the united states. Wrote the first psychology textbook titled The Principals of Psychology.
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Wanted to understand how heredity influeced a person's abilities, character, and behavior. Galton traced the ancestry of eminent people and found that greatness is hereditary. He concluded that genius is hereditary.
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Wertheimer, Kohler, and Koffka disagreed with the principals of structuralism and behaviorism. They also argued that perception is a whole and is not just a sum of its parts.
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Used a tuning fork to make sound which made the dog salivate because the sound from the tuning fork provoked a stimulus that made the dog behave that way.
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Was more interested in the unconcious mind becuse he felt that the unconcious motivations and conflicts are most responsible for most human behavior.
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Formulated the behavior that is known as behaviorist. The position of them was that psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior.
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Piaget, Chomsky, and Festinger focused on how we process, store, and use information and how this information influences our thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity.
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Introduced the concept of reinforcement which is the response to a behavior that increases the likelihood the behavior will be repeated.
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Maslow, Rogers, and May described human nature as evolving and self directed.