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Wilhelm Wundt discovered it. This is the studies the behaviors and toughts on processing information. It's the study of basic elements that make up concious mental experiences.
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Sir Francis Galton wanted to understand biological traits. He invented procedures for testing abilities and characteristics of people.
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William James, Also known as the "Father of Psychology", Wrote the first book on psychology. Functionalism is the study of how animals and people adapt to their environments.
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German psychologists, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffa, Disagreed with structuralism and behaviorism. You percieve things as a whole and not idividual things.
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The analyzing of thoughts and dreams brought to our attention by Sigmund Freud. THe unconcious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings and thoughts.
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Ivan Pavlov used dog breeds to change the behavior of animals. This concept was also tried in Russia when communism was brought up.
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Ulric Neisser is associated with this. The scientific study of mind and mental function, including learning, memory, attention, perception, reasoning, language, conceptual development, and decision making.
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Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May believed human behavior has the freedom in direction their future and achieving personal growth.
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The influence of cultural and ethnic similarities
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The application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals, also known as behavioral neuroscience.
