History Of Psyc Chpt 1-7

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Presentism

Back 1

Looking at history in contemparary standards

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Great-Person

Back 2

Enficize person's point

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Eclectic approach

Back 3

Events contriute to change

Hint 3

EClecTiC

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What is psychology?

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Study of the psyche, study of the spirit, study of consciousness, study of behavior

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Who is known as the father of psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Empirical Observation

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Gaining knowledge through observation.

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Zeitgeist

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Spirit of the times

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Historicism

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Study of the past

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Reificiation

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Theroy: everything has a name for a reason

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Rasputin

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Paradigms

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The way things are seen at that time.

**Sun revolving around the earth**

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Epistemology

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study of the nature of knowledge

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Dualist

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Believe that the mind and body are both physical events and mental events

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Normal Science

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KUHN: research performed by scientists to find the impliations of a paradigm

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Reasons why it is important to study the history of psychology?

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- Historical perspective
- Knowledge of where the subject came from and why it is important
-Fads/ Fashion popularity of ideas
- Learn from past mistakes
- General interest

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Functions of scientific theory

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- Oraganizes empirical observations
= guide for future observations
- Experimental testing

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Animism

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Looking at nature as thought it were alive

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Kuhn: normal science

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Pardigms change as observations cannot be explained by the current paradigm

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Correlational laws

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How events carry from one to each other

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Correlation... carr

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Causal laws

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Cause, One causes the other

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Anthropomorphism

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Personification; giving inanimate and animate objects human like with emotions

**Disney's lion king**

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Entelechy

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Aristotle: Everthing exists for a reason

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En existance

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Entelechy

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Aristotle:
- pupose for which a thing exists
- remains a potential until used

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ex. active reason, human entelechy exists only as a potential in many humans.

aka humans have a potential to act

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Essence

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Those indispensable characteristics of a thing that give it its unique identity

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ex. Barney, being a purple dinosaur

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Teleology

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- Belief that everything exist for a purpose.

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Aristotle's beleif.

4 causes to understand anything:
Material, formal, efficient, final (why it exists)

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Pythagoreans and perfection

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- explanation of the universe is found in numbers.
- affected Plato's views, and christian thought
- Dualistic

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pythagoran therom.

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Hippocrates

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- father of modern medicine
- diseases had natural causes
- four humors of the human body.

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flem, blood, yellow, black

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Sophists

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- philospher/teacher
- "truth is what people thought it to be"

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sofa = Opra - tells people the truth

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Socrates

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- believed in personal experience
- "no thruth exists beyond personal opinion"
- inductive definition
- goals in life to gain knowledge

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disagreed with sophists

Gain knowledge

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Plato

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- Student of Socrates
- experience through senses
- true knowledge attained through reason, and rational thought
- all knowledge innate
- concentrate on rational pursuits
- supress fear, love, rage, sex, hunger

Hint 29

Plato sounds like play doo
children play with play doo,
knowledge is innate

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Allegory of the cave

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Plato's description:
-individuals who live their lives in accordance with the shadows of reality provided by sensory experience instead of in accordance with the true reality beyound sensory experience.

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Aristotle

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- 1st to relate topics to psychology
- studying nature and observation of phenomena.
- rational and empiricism
- 4 causes to understand anything

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Student of Plato

"Everything exists for a purpose"

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Law of contiguity

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thought of something will tend to cause thoughts of things that are usually experienced along with it.

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match together an experience with an action.

ex. drinking to much tequilla will make one vomit. Now the smell of tequilla makes people sick.

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Law of contrast

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A thought of something will tend to cause thoughts of opposite things.

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law of frequency

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the more often experiences occur together, the stronger will be their association

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Law of similarity

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when we think of something, we tend to think of things similar to it.

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thinking about money often leads to people thinking about their jobs

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Laws of associations

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laws thought responsible for holding mental events together in memory. Contiguity, contrast, similarity, and frequency

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all of the previous laws linking events to memory

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Occam's razor

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- Shave off unnecessary infomation

Hint 37

KISS
"Keep it simple stupid"

~Never kiss a razor cuz its sharp~

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Dialectic method

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Technique by Abelard:
- to seek the truth
- Questions are made and several possible answers are explored

Hint 38

Good cop bad cop interview

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Introspection

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Examening one's inner experiences.

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Mystery religions

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- Cults
- Secret initiation, ceremonies
- Symbol of death and rebirth
- Forgiveness of sins

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Pyrrho

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Skepticism

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Stoics and moral choices

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- Divine plan for everything in nature
- Material possessions not valued highly

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*Everything is there for a reason*

~Live in harmony with nature~

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Avicenna: 5 external senses

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* Sight
* Hearing
* touch
* taste
* Smell

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Dogmatists

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*Skeptics*

an indisputable truth.

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Yeah right... the true

~Mommy is skeptic about dogs; and that is the truth~

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Avicenna: 7 internal senses

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* Common Sense
* Retentive Imagination
* Compositive animal imagination
* Compostive human imagination
* Estimative power
* Ability to remember outcomes of info
* Ability to use info

Hint 45

Carl's
Retarded
Cockatoo
Cooks
Eats
And
Appetizes

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Who is Peter Abelhard

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- use dialectiv method to overcome inconsistencies in statements made by theologians through the years
- Conceptualism

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Induction

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Specific to General

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adding in IN

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phenomenologist

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Studying the nature of conscious experience

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Secondary qualities

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Attributes of physical objects that exists in the mind only.

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Sound, color, odor, temperature, taste

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Primary qualities

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Attributes of physical objects: size shape, number, position, and movement

Hint 50

size shape, number, position, and movement

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Martin Luther

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Disturbed by the corruption of the Catholic Churches.

Believed in personal religion

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Martin Luther King was a priest. Martin Luther hates priests.

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Copernicus

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"The Earth revolved around the sun. "

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Descartes

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Humans are mechanical robots.

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Galileo

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Several truths of Aristotle is FALSE. Used a telescope Studied the solar system.

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Newton/Principles of Newtonian Science

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Law of Gravity.

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Locke

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Empirist.
Responsible for Sensory stimulation.

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Berkeley

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"The only thing we experience directly is our own perceptions or secondary qualities"

Trust god with our senses.

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Simple ideas

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Mental remains of sensations.

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complex ideas

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Composites of Simple Ideas

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Hobbes

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Seek pleasure avoid pain.

Satisfy human needs