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Ancient Greeks

Plato: Objectivism: the study of singularity
Subjectivism: the study of a group of similar things

Enlightment: (17th Century)

Rene Descartes: Dualism: separation of mindand body work together

John Locke: Tabula rasa: humans are born with a blank state
Empiricism: the senses through experiences

19th Century

Wilhelm Wundt: Structuralism: mapthe basic structure of thought processes
1st experimental lab (abnormal behavior)

William James: All activities of the mind help the survival of the species
Studied function of themind and behavior
Theory of emotion

Francis Galton: 1st personality and intelligence test
Individual differences heredity

20th Century

Sigmund Freud: 1st to try to map themind, classify the illnesses and cures
Psychoanalysis
Unconscious mind motivation and conflict
Free association
Dream analysis

Ivan Pavlov: Classicalconditioning stimulus-response idea
Laid the basis for psychology as a science of observable behavior

John Watson: Behaviorism: observable facts
All subconscious behavior acled outB.F Skinner: Father of modern behaviorism
Reinforcement of desired behavior can be used on a society as a whole
Operant conditioning

Experimental Method

Appliedscience: using scientific findings to accomplish practical goals

Basic science: the pursue of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake

Without basic science, there would be little to applyELEMENTS OF EXPERIMENT

1. Hypothesis: what do you expect to happen (educated guess)?
2. Subjects: people/animals to experiment on
3. Independent variable (IV): variable that theresearcher changes or manipulates
4. Dependent variable (DV): changes as a result of the IV
5. Control group: a group where the IV is not changed
6. Experimental group: a group where...