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Period: 322 to
Aristotle
Born in Stagira in north Greece
He was trained first in medicine, and then in 367 he was sent to Athens to study
philosophy with Plato.
Aristotle is said to have written 150 philosophical treatises. The 30 that survive touch on an enormous range of philosophical problems, from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to
politics. Many, however, are thought to be "lecture notes" instead of complete, polished treatises, and a few may not be the work of Aristotl -
Period: 377 to 460
Hippocrates (BC)
He was born in Greece and started science as a Physician but is better known for his work in medicine and discovering symptoms of lung cancer, lung disease and cyanotic lung disease. -
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Rene Descartes
Born in:Touraine, France
Died in: Stockholm, Sweden Country: France Field of science: Mathenatican/philospher Contribution to Psychology: developed the idea that anything can be solved with reason. he did not believe in or approve of experiments. he relied solely on reason. -
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Charles Darwin
Country: England Scintific Interests: Naturalist, medical educetion, Geology Psych Contributions: had a theory that all species of life descended over time from a comon ancestor -
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Wilhelm Wundt
Country: Germany Field of science: Experimental Psychology and Physiology. He was a physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, professor. Contributions to Psychology: Founded the first of two experimental psychology labs. He was associated with structuralism, which includes describing the structures that compose the mind. -
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William James
Field of Science: Philosopher, psychologist and a trained physician Country: America Contribution: He wrote influential books on pragmatism, psychology, educational psychology, the psychology of religious experience and mysticism -
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Sigmund Freud
Was born in Austria on the 6th of may 1856-1939. He first studied medicine at the univercity of Vienna. As Freud studied medicine he worked on theories of the unconsious mind and repression, this lead to his major discovery of 'Psychoanalysis. -
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John B Watson
From South Carolina. John majored in psychology and minored in philosophy and neurologyat the University of Chicago. His main contribution to psychology was his theory of behaviour he saw psychology as the study of people's actions with the ability to predict and control these actions. He also had his theory that children only had three basic emotions fear, rage and love. -
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Thomas Jean Piaget
Neuchâtel, France Interests were: Developmental Psychology, Epistemology -
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BF Skinner
Country- Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Scientific Interests and contributions- He was an inventor as well as psychologist, had two books received numerous awards and honorary degrees.