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1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus published the idea that the sun, not Earth as was previously thought, is the center of the universe. -
1499
Nicolaus Copernics
Nicolaus was best known for the heliocentric solar system. Thought that the planets orbited around the sun. -
1542
NIcolaus cipernicus
Nicolaus determined that the Earth rotates daily on its axis and that the Earth's motion affected what people saw in the heavens. -
1564
Galileo Galilei
He used a telescope to prove the predictions of star position and movement, based on Copernicus work -
Galileo Galilei
He invented the thermoscope, and used the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects -
Rene Descartes
He reasoned that the mind controlled the body's movements, sensations, and perceptions. Human behavior was based on assumption that the mind and body influences each other to create a person's experience's. -
Galileo Galilei
He was arrest for heresy. And was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. -
Rene Descartes
Rene disagreed that earth was the center of the universe. Proposing that a link existed between mind and body. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes's metaphysics based on the innate ideas of mind, matter, and God his physics and physiology based on experience are mechanistic and empiricist -
Sir Francis Galton
Wanted to learn how heredity, and biological traits are passed down from parents to children, influences abilities, character, and behavior. -
William James
Williams theory that thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering all activities of the mind serve one major function to help us survive as a species -
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Sir Frances Galton
He suggested that good marriges should be encouraged to supply the world with talented or fit offspring and eliminate the birth of less desirable offspring. -
William James
Also know as the father of psychology. It took him 12 years to right the psychology book ( The Principles Of Psychology). -
Max Wertheimer
Disagreed with the principles of structuralism and behaviorism. Argued that perception is more than the sum of its parts. -
William James
He focused on the functions or actions of the conscious ind and the goals or purposes of behavior. -
SIr Francis Galton
Galton began his work shortly before psychology emerged as an independent discipline -
Wolfgang Kohler
Disagreed with the principles of structuralism and behaviorism. They agreed that perception is more than sum of its parts it involves a whole pattern. -
Kurt Koffka
Kurt focus on perception, hearing impairments in brain-damaged patients. He helped to establish the theories that gave rise to the school of Gestalt psychology. -
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