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Dualism
This was the concept that the mind and body are seperate and distinct. -
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René Decartes
Decartes disagreed with the concept of dualism. He proposed the idea that there is a link between the mind (movements, senstaions, and perspections) and the body. He believed that they influence each other to help create a person's experiences. -
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Sir Francis Galton
Galton believed that greatness is genteic and concluded emineseis a hereditary trait. Galton encouraged "good" marriages to produce talented offspring and even raised questions about eliminating the "less desireable" people. Galton didn't take in to consideration the priveledged socioeconomic postitions these "eminate" people were born into, and that it might give them more oppurtunites to achieve greatness. -
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William Wundt
German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt estblished the concept of introspection. Interception was the concept of trained participants reporting their thoughts and a basic structure of the thought process was mapped out. -
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William James
Considered the "father of psychology" in the United Sates, William James taught the very first psychology class at Harvard University in 1875. He also published the very first textbook on psycholgy titled "The Principals of Psycholgy" -
Structuralism
Structuralists studied and were interested inbasic elements of human experiences -
William Wundt's Labratory of Psychology
William Wundt createdlabratory of Psychology in 1879 in Germany, he was the first person to estblish psychology as a formal field of study. This was the first formal labratory estblished for psychology. -
"Inquiries Into Human Faculty and its Development"
This book publsihed by Sir Francis Galtonstudied individual differences and has helped scientists doscover that a person's environment and genes interact to produce inteligence. Galton also created the first character and personality tests. -
"The Prinicipals of Psychology" was published
This was the very first textbook written about psychology. Wiritten by William James over a time span of 12 years, the book estblishes that thinking, feeling, learning, and remeberig exist to help us survive as a species -
Inhertitable Traits
Inheritable traits are biological traits that are passed down from parent to child. -
Functionalism
Functionalists studied how mental processes help people and animals develop to their environment. -
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt means "a whole pattern" and gestalt psycholgy is that perspection is more than the sum of its parts. Gestalt physchologists reject with structuralism and behaviorism. Instead they study how senstaions are assembled into perceptual experiences.
Some examples of these psychologists are:
Max Wertheimer(1880-1943)
Wolfgang Kohler(1887-!967)
Kurt Koffka(1886-1941)
