Socrates And Thomas Jefferson Research Paper

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Important Psychologists Notes- Socrates/Plato- (496-399 B.C.) Offered a different idea about mind and body Socrates Did not charge for his teaching, It was all verbal and nothing was written down, he would talk to anyone who would listen. Both viewed knowledge as built within us. Aristotle Socrates intellectual grandson was born after his death. Aristotle was later Platos future student. Aristotle- Platos new student Socrates grandson Kind and warm but often referred to as plain spoken Denied the presidency of Plato's academy after his death Founded a rival school and doubled his scholarly output by farming out research to his students. His love of data distinguished him from Socrates and Plato. Derived principles from careful…show more content…
Assigned a one page essay on “our own abilities” Locke wrote several hundred pages and took 20 years to complete the essay “ essay concerning human understanding) Believed we are all equal at birth. Wilhelm Wundt (1879) Studied at the university of Leipzig. Performed the reaction time experiment that tested how long it took the body to react to a sound heard. E.B. Titchener Studied at Cornell University Introduced structuralism- An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore structural elements of the human mind. Aimed to discover the elements of the mind, his method was to engage people in self reflective introspection (looking inward). William James Thought it more fruitful to consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. assumed that thinking like smelling developed because it was adaptive and contributed to our ancestors survival. Developed the philosophy of pragmatism, which tested truth by its practical…show more content…
Socrates did not charge for his teaching and was open about his ideas making it easier for the word to spread and more people to gain knowledge about his ideas. Charles Darwin was also a very important figure in psychology in my opinion. He came up with, and studied, natural selection a very important and still used aspect involved in every type of life on earth. Darwin also believed his theory on natural selection not only explained animal structures but animal behaviors as well, today very similar to

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