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Crtesian Dualism
Discovery of the human's Dualism nature. -
Rene Descartes
Discovered that humans have a dual nature or two-sided nature, this was named Cartesian Dualism -
John Locke
Come up with the teory that the human mind was mechanical and physical, therefore it was subject to natural laws that could be studied scientifically. this was named idea materialism. -
James Mill
the John Locke theory was names by James Mill the idea materialism. he that we are material beings in a material world and therefore if we are completely material and we -
Empiricism
Empiricism is the notion of conducting experiments that demonstrate clearly what is and what isn't true. -
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german non psychologists
Psychology was born in Germany, in late 1800’s it was the strongest country in Europe and in the world in terms of economy -
Hermann von Helmholtz
He was a physicist and called himself an empirical philosopher which is close to psychology and he was also an ophthalmologist.
Before his research people use to think it was impossible to determine neural information transmission rate because it happens so fast but he was able to prove that it could be determined. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt is known as the first psychologist and the father of modern psychology. He established the first experimental lab devoted to psychology in 1874. And he wrote the first textbook, over here, the Principles of Physiological Psychology, in 1879. -
Psychology Broadening out of Germany and into America
William James was an American, he interested in the function of various psychological processes, he did not do a lot of empirical research like other scientists of his time, he mostly generated ideas, he in some way was more of a philosopher than a psychologist. And today most of experimental data oddly matches James’ ideas. -
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Sigmund Freud
He generates a lot of his ideas in the late 1800's and the early 1900's during what was called the Victorian Era. -
Sigmund Freud
In his time, sex and aggression wasn’t talked about. They were not polite things to be talked about. -
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Post-Sigmund Freud
Psychology was moved toward clinical studies or approaches. -
Creation of computers
Creation of computers is what made all sciences Develop. Technology allowed the human race to study new things and make discoveries.
