3750:100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)
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Aristotle believed that everything had life sources and different souls. Wilhlelm wundt- founded rst psych lab un 1879. William james- american philosopher; wrote rst psychology text book. Completed all ph. d requirements, but didn"t get her degree because she was a woman. Followers emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind and its effects on human behavior. Is the reason why the words conscious" and unconscious" Biology and physiology made psychology: pavlov"s principles of learning (biologist, taught a dog to salivate from speci c alarms/sounds, freud- personality theorist (physician, piaget- developmental psychology (biologist, developmental stages of humans. Until the 1920"s it was known as the science of mental life. Is now de ned the study of behavior and mental processes. Watson and skinner emphasized the study of overt behavior as the subject matter of scienti c psychologists. Skinner also known for studying behavior in animals, mostly monkeys. 1st african americans to earn ph. ds in psychology.
