People (1 & 2) Test Review

Question 1

Biologist who outlined natural selection to facilitate survival of the fittest through biological adaptation

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Charles Darwin

Question 2

Studied instinctive behavior and muscle memory; Developed comparative psychology; advocated for womens social liberation

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Margaret Floy Washburn

Question 3

Believed that education and ethical guidelines are vital to improve society and social moral force would impact behavior

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Confucius

Question 4

Believed suffering is caused by attachment, but keeping the mind focused in the right way can be a path to healing

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Gautama Buddha

Question 5

Believed the mind was a tabula rasa shaped by experience and language impacted complex consciousness

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John Locke

Question 6

Indentified Dualism to explain the separation of mind and body, found that the nerve and blood systems were important

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Rene Descartes

Question 7

Created Functionalism as a foundation for biopsych research into mental processes; identified stream of consciousness

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William James

Question 8

Believed adults could be educated and founded the Academy to promote the value of literacy, governing, and learning

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Plato

Question 9

Wrote Sturmsee as a demand for social welfare responsbility; promoted psychologycourse expansion; published 1st textbook

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Henry Holt

Question 10

Believed that thinking was innate and activated through inquiry, and created a method of debate to govern society

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Socrates

Question 11

Created the Lyceum to improve society by spreading the access of knowledge; shaped western religion; defined happiness

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Aristotle

Question 12

Advocated for the funding of mental health research and patient/prisoner treatment; created nursing bedside manner

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Dorthea Dix

Question 13

Created the first global course in psychology with Principles of Psychophysical Parallelism experiment on reaction time

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Wilhelm Wundt

Question 14

Founded Self Psychology; studied the relationship between paired associations and short term memboy

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Mary Whiton Calkins

Question 15

Studied adolescence and gerontology; founded the APA to collect research findings and to distribut them through journals

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G. Stanley Hall

Question 16

Developed Inductive Reasoning as the model for research, explained confirmation bias, and created empericism

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Francis Bacon

Question 17

Created a clinical setting for psychological research and treatment; researched learning disabilities in children

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Lightner Witmer

Question 18

Developed structuralism to theorize how the brain perceives sensory stimuli; disovered that people's perception is unite

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Edward Bradford Titchener

Question 19

Believed that sleep sanctuaries could calm mental disturbances and thought that blood imbalances were to blame

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Ancient Greek/Hebrew Scholars

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