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Rene Descartes disagrees with dualistic approaches that mind anybody are separate
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The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote an influential treatise on the psyche, called in Greek.
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used self-observation o gather info about the mind.
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The biological perspective is a way of looking at psychological issues by studying the physical basis for animal and human behavior.
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William James wrote"The principal of psychology.
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Focus on the importance of the unconscious mind.
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Cognitive psychology, Branch of psychology devoted to the study of human cognition, particularly as it affects learning and behaviour.
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environment is most important in development.
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Evolutionary psychology, the study of behavior, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology.
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Heredity is a term that refers to traits and features that are inherited from one's parents and ancestors. At birth a person inherits 50% of each parent's genetic material (genes) that are passed along through the chromosomes found in the DNA .
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Humans behavior can be learned, conditioned, refined.
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Sociocultural Perspective is a theory used in fields such as psychology and is used to describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals