Prologue

Aristotle
- naturalist
- philosopher
- soul and body are not separate
- knowledge grows from experience
Descartes
- scientific method
- mind and body are separate
- empiricism
Wundt
- German
- birth of psychology
- studied atoms of mind and conscience
William James
- Functionalism
- 2st professor of psychology
- 1st psych text book
functionalism

function of mind
Freud
- Austrian physician
- unconscience mind and effects on human behavior
Watson
- Father of behavorist
- if we can control enviroment we can control behaviorism
Maslow and Rogers
- Humanistic psychology
- enviromental influences on our growth potential and our need for love and acceptance
Psychology's three main levels of analysis
- biological
- social-cultural
- psychological
Neuroscience

how he body and brain enables emotions
evolutionary

how the natural selection of traits the promotes the perpetuation of ones genes
behavior genetics

how much our genes and our enviroments influences our individual differences
psychodynamic

how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
behavioral

how we learn observable responses
cognitive

how we encode, process, store and retrieve information
social-cultural

how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

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Prologue

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Prolouge

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2012-05-05T23:31:38Z