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Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE
Plato
Student of Aristotle, identifies mind with the brain, interest in mental disorders, difference between body and mind -
Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
Identifies mind with hearth, great influence pf social and cultural enviroment in behaviour -
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Descartes
Mind and body are independent,glorification of human reason ("I think therefore I am"),radical mind-body dualism, -
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John Locke
Empiricism and "historical, plain method," which consists of observations, contribetes on behaviourism -
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Charles Darwin
On the origin of species,survival of fittest (natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding), contributes in biological approuch -
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Wundt
Firste ever laboratory of psycolgy in German, psycology became real subject and science -
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Sigmunt Freud
Interpretation of dreams, influence of unconscious mind on behaviour, focus on childhood, contributes on psycodynamic approach -
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John Watson
Established the psychological school of behaviorism, conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising