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    1 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Cristin Norine started The Future of Socializing‚ a 30-day "art piece" in which she: A. avoided using electronic media for social interaction. B. interviewed different people to find out how technology had affected their lives. C. observed a series of focus group discussions to find out how people interact in a social setting. D. isolated herself from actual contact with people and interacted with

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    works‚ especially those on epistemology (theory of knowledge)‚ aesthetics and ethics had a profound influence on later philosophers‚ including contemporary ones. Kant’s philosophy is often described as the golden middle between rationalism and empiricism. He didn’t accept either of both views but he gave credit to both. While rationalists argue that knowledge is a product of reason‚ empiricists claim that all knowledge comes from experience. Kant rejected yet adopted both‚ arguing that experience

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    History of Psychology Timeline Ancient Greece 500 to 200 BC Ancient Greece philosophy began with the concepts created by such great figures as Thales‚ Anaximander‚ Anaximenes‚ Pythagoras whose philosophies helped shape great fathers of philosophy such as the Sophist‚ Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle. Ancient Rome 129 to 216 AD Claudius Galen was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origins and the most famous doctor in the Roman Empire shared the beliefs of Hipocrates about the

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    stages of his career‚ he purchased a wide tract of land on the Hudson and encouraged other researchers to settle around him. Soon a colony had formed there with him as its ’tribal’ chief.[8] ConnectionismEdit Thorndike was a pioneer not only in behaviorism and in studying learning‚ but also in using animals in psychology experiments.[9] Thorndike was able to create a theory of learning based on his research with animals.[9] His doctoral dissertation‚ “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of

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    The Foundations of Psychology Jennifer Moser 582521 PSY301 Every since the beginning of Psychology‚ we have been faced with many questions. Psychology did not emerge as it’s own field until the late 1800’s. Psychology was first seen as a study of the human consciousness. The study of behavior of the mind dates all the way back to the Ancient Greeks. The formal founding of psychology had many developments in the early schools of thought

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    Psychology is the investigation of the mind and how it processes and directs our thoughts‚ actions and conceptions. However‚ in 1879 Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Nevertheless‚ the origins of psychology go all the way back thousands of years starting with the early Greeks. This foundation is closely connected to biology and philosophy; and especially the subfields of physiology which is the study of the roles of living things and epistemology

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    Personality Overview Paper The study of human personality has numerous theories. When looking at the differences of these theories‚ one can not help but wonder if the theories are a representation of the individual who developed them. There is also a question of variances based on geographical and time of which these theories were developed. Researchers gain a basic knowledge and understanding based on scientific research and current theories of the time. Combined with the personality of the individual

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    Part 1: Theory and Research in Human Development Human development ¤  Studying change and constancy throughout the lifespan. Basic Issues in Lifespan ¤  Continuous or discontinuous? ¤  One course of development or many? ¤  Nature or nurture? The Lifespan Perspective: A Balanced Point of View ¤  Development as lifelong. ¤  Development as multidimensional and multidirectional. ¤  Development as plastic. ¤  Development as embedded in multiple context: ¤  age-graded influences

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    on its rules‚ they also could not bathe in heated water either. Religion was also an important aspect of life in the Fruitlands. The religion that they followed was Transcendentalism. This religion didn’t embrace but also didn’t oppose empiricism. Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience and was stimulated by the rise of experimental science. They also were strong believers in the power of each individual. Overtime‚ people decided to leave because of the strict

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    Of the five tenets of humanistic psychology‚ the first tenet best exemplifies the difference between humanistic psychology and that of psychoanalysis and behaviorism. The first tenet states “Human beings‚ as human‚ are more than merely the sum of their parts. They cannot be reduced to component parts or functions” (Bugental‚ 1964‚ pp. 19-25). This idea alone is in strong contrast to psychoanalysis and humanism

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