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When you’re looking at an entire race, everyone is different, we don’t all adapt the same way

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Being a functionalist encouraged explorations of down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower, and habits. They were exploring how mental and behavioral processes function and how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. So it showed the human race in a better light.

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Influenced by Charles Darwin, functionalism explores how mental and behavioral processes function. It focuses on how these processes enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.

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Thought that knowledge is natural, and that we are born with it.  However, it is possible to gain knowledge as we live.

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enabled the observation of inside information as opposed to external observation; what were their immediate sensations, images, and feelings.

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Largely based on experiences, while lacking clear concepts of where the knowledge is obtained from or explanation for seemingly intrinsic behaviors

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Introspection required smart, verbal people. It also proved somewhat unreliable because it changed from person to person and experience to experience.

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Descartes believed that there were "animal spirits" in the nerves in our brain that controlled movements. He also believed these animal spirits lived in pores in the brain where memories were created.

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He was right about nerve paths controlling movements. He learned through observation.

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The part of his theory relating to animal spirits cannot be scientifically backed. Could only predict what people of his time knew.

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The idea that humans gain knowledge through experience. He believes we are born a blank slate (tabula rasa). Observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge.

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Humans often gain knowledge now through different experiences. How humans learn by experiencing it will make it more upfront in their memory and will make the learning more personal.
Observation and experimental studies are often used to collect data. This data is often used to help in studies in which these pieces of data are needed to prove or disprove a hypothesis.

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engage people in their self reflective introspection (looking inward), training to report elements of their experiences.
- early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener, used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind
- wundt also opened the first psychology lab in Germany

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That knowledge is not preexisting, rather it grows from experiences and memories from the past.

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His theory is based on logic it can be defended

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The mind is separate from the body. When the body dies, the mind still works.

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The mind is separable from the body and continues after the body dies, and knowledge is born with us (innate).

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Thinks knowledge is born with us, so it's impossible to gain anymore knowledge throughout life.

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The mind and body work separately, so they have to communicate to make the whole self function. The mind also still works after death.

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The mind can survive death. It shows how the mind and the physical body communicates.

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Your group will be assigned a historical psychological thinker.

For your historical thinker(s), summarize the main idea of their theory as concisely as possible. Please use information from the textbook. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_R-EaG4dQFiRHNvRGk3Z3RmUWM/view?usp=sharing

Then add a strength and weakness about their approach.

Add the information to the class Padlet.

Please include the approach in the title and the names of the group members.

Present the information to the class.

1. Prescientific Psychology—Socrates

2. Prescientific Psychology—Plato

3. Prescientific Psychology—Aristotle

4. Prescientific Psychology—Rene Descartes

5. Prescientific Psychology—John Locke (Empircism)

6. Founders of Scientific Psychology—Wilhelm
Wundt (Structuralism)

7. Founders of Scientific Psychology—William James (Functionalism)

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Because he claims knowledge must come from experience, people refute this idea because how people perceive different events can allow for some variation of how different experiences should effect the human body and mind.
Can only be used if one has experienced an event.