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In the 5th and 6th century B.C. Greeks begin to study the behavior of humans.
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In the 1500's the people of the Renaissance used the idea of experimentation through observation.
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In the mid 1500's he published the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.
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He used the telescope to make predicitons about star positioning and movement, based off of the work of Copernicus.
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During the 17th century, dualism - the concept of the mind being seperate from the body, was studied.
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He believed that the mind controlled the body's movements, sensations, and perceptions.
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the father of psychology who wrote the first textbook on this topic. His main concern was functionalists
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He established modern psychology as a seperate and formal field of study.
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During th 19th century, biologists announced the discovery of cells as buliding blocks of life.
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Was a mathematician and scientist who used heredity to describe human behaviors.
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was a physician who became interested in the the unconscience mind
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Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May believed that human nature was evolving and sefl directed.
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A Russian physiologist who charted a course for psychological understanding and investagation.
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A physcologist that solidified the behaviorist position - that psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior.
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The most recent approach to psychology studies the influence of cultural and ethnic similrities and differences on behavior as well as social functioning.