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Apr 20, 2020 · Key Takeaways: Scientific Foundations of Psychology. The science of psychology is widely recognized as beginning in 1879 with Wilhelm Wundt’s founding of the first psychology lab, but it has a long prehistory in philosophy and physiology. A wide variety of theoretical orientations have emerged throughout psychology’s history, each of which ...
Feb 12, 2024 · Below, we describe some of the Unit 1 key terms and people you should review ahead of the AP Psychology exam. Introspection: The examination of one’s own mental and emotional processes. Structuralism: The idea that the mind operates by combining subjective emotions and objective sensations, a theory developed by Wilhelm Wundt.
a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. hindsight bias (I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon) the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. See more. Study with Quizlet and ...
absolute idealism. the philosophical position that both mental and material reality are manifestations of a universal and absolute mind or spirit. See idealism; idealistic monism. [proposed by German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)] A trusted reference in the field of psychology, offering more than 25,000 clear and ...
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Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, and has only recently begun seriously grappling with the issue of cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that the roots of cross-cultural variation often lie in the past. Therefore, to understand not just the way, but also why psychology varies, we also need to g...
To explain contemporary behavior and psychology, an increasing number of researchers have found themselves turning to cultural evolutionary theories and historical data. Here, we describe some illustrative examples that link contemporary psychological variation—including cooperation, trust, personality and gender differences—to historical processes...
There are at least two ways in which an engagement with history can be useful for psychologists. In the previous section, we focused on how contemporary cross-cultural psychological patterns might be driven by past cultural or ecological dynamics. In this section, we turn to a discussion of how traces of past cognition can be extracted from histori...
It is helpful to think of historical data in terms of a spectrum from unstructured to structured. Fully unstructured data consists of uninterpreted artifacts or physical texts from the past, the raw data upon which scholarly interpretation is built. As the identity and function of artifacts are inferred, or texts are deciphered, standardized and i...
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Jan 11, 2000 · Aristotle’s Psychology. First published Tue Jan 11, 2000; substantive revision Mon Oct 12, 2020. Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in Macedon, in what is now northern Greece, but spent most of his adult life in Athens. His life in Athens divides into two periods, first as a member of Plato’s Academy (367–347) and later as director of his ...
Oct 28, 2024 · cognitive science. neurodiversity. psychology, scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. The discipline of psychology is broadly divisible into two parts: a large profession of practitioners and a smaller but growing science of mind, brain, and social behaviour.
