which famous greek philosopher wrote extensively about psychological topics such as sleep and dreaming, the senses, and memory? aristotle descartes calkins james
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- Aristotle (384 –322 BC) first Greek philosopher to write extensively on topics later became part of the science of psychology, such as: Sleep, Dreams, The Senses, Memory, Traits and Dispositions of different animals. Personality Sensation and Perception, Thought, Intelligence, Needs and Motives, Feelings and Emotion.
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- James McKeen Cattell was very influential in psychology as an organizer, executive, and administrator of psychological science and practice, and as a vocal link between psychology and the larger scientific community. He studied under William Wundt, and was a leading American Psychologist.hile at Pennsylvania he began to administer tests to students, and he introduced the term mental tests.. He left for the University of Columbia in 1891, where he became a Professor of Psychology and the Head of the Department. Cattell was at Columbia for 26 years.
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- Anaximander 610 BCE – 546 BCE. Anaximander of Miletus is the famous pupil and, in many ways, a philosophical successor to Thales himself. He is credited for being the first known writer on philosophy – given that he is the only known philosopher to have authored the first surviving lines of western philosophy.ythagoras 570 BCE – 495 BCE. Another pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Pythagoras is someone known far more for his theories and ideas in mathematics than in philosophy. In fact, he is best known for the theorem in geometry that is named after him.
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- Rene Descartes (1596-1650). It has been said that both modern philosophy and modern mathematics began with the work of Rene Descartes. His analytic method of thinking focused attention on the problem of how we know (epistemology), which has occupied philosophers ever since. Descartes was educated at the renowned Jesuit school of La Fleche where he was taught philosophy, science, and mathematics.
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Descartes' Life and Works First published Mon Apr 9, 2001; substantive revision Sat Sep 6, 2014. Descartes has been heralded as the first modern philosopher. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra, which allowed for the solving of geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations.
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- It is no. surprise, then, that before the birth of psychology, philosophers discussed. many issues that today are part of the field of psychology. Perception, learning, emotions, memory, and the relationship between the mind and the body, for ex-. ample, were all popular topics for philosophy.
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Confirmations of Psychoanalytic Ideas about Dreams The frontal and limbic areas of the brain are concerned with arousal, emotion, memory, and motivation. The back parts of the brain are concerned with abstract thinking and perception. However, the in-between areas (the dorsolateral frontal convexity-the upper end of the motor system) is inactive during sleep.
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- This observation forced him to question Hobson's prevailing theory which marked the brain stem as the source of the signals interpreted as dreams. Solms viewed the idea of dreaming as a function of many complex brain structures as validating Freudian dream theory, an idea that drew criticism from Hobson.
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Franz Brentano Brentano is best known for his reintroduction of the concept of intentionality — a concept derived from scholastic philosophy — to contemporary philosophy in his lectures and in his work Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkt (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint).rentano was born at Marienberg am Rhein, near Boppard. He studied philosophy at the universities of Munich, Wuerzburg, Würzburg (berlin With Adolf) trendelenburg And. muenster münster
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- In the past, philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes have separately attempted to refute Descartes's account of the dream argument. Locke claimed that pain in dreams are not of the same intensity as pain in reality.
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Descartes' dream argument? Answers. Best Answer: Descartes introduces a Method of Doubt that allows him to systematically doubts structures of knowledge. To understand the dream argument, you need to understand its function in Descartes's argument. The first thing he does is doubt what the senses give us.
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Sigmound Freud Sigmound Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed some of the most influential theories in modern psychology and psychoanalysis. His division of the mind into the conscious and unconscious components have driven research on the brain into very specific directions, and his contributions extend into the field of neuroscience, as well.
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Thereâs An Organ In Your Brain Which Seats Your Soul: Meet Your Pineal Gland Descartes was interested in the location of the pineal in relation to the cerebrospinal fluid byways, and suggested that when the pineal gland “secreted our thoughts” that they moved through the cerebrospinal fluid to make its way to the rest of the brain.
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- Which famous Greek philosopher wrote extensively about such psychological topics as sleep and dreaming, the senses, memory, and learning? A. Aristotle B. Descartes C. Calkins D. James Answer: A 4. In thinking about psychology and consciousness, the idea that the mind and the body are separate entities that interact makes a lot of sense to you. This view that you hold is most like the view of: A. Aristotle. B. Descartes. C. Watson. D. Skinner. Answer: B 5. French philosopher René Descartes: A. strongly opposed the idea of establishing psychology as a separate science.
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Did Dodge Just Reveal the Dodge Demonâs Horsepower? Horsepower isn’t the only thing that the “Performance Pages” teaser may have leaked. In the same series of screenshots, you can see the times recorded for traveling from 0 to 60 mph and 0 to 100 mph. The readings list the 0-to-60 time of the Dodge Demon as 3.0 seconds.
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Psychology Chap 1 Key people Mary Whiton Calkins. 1863-1930. Mary Calkins studied under William James, founded one of the first dozen psychology laboratories in America at Wellesley College in 1891, invented a widely used technique for studying memory, and became the first woman to serve as president of the American Psychological Association in 1905.
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- The mind/brain/consciousness debate has been going for more than twenty centuries. Historically, it is one of the most important debates ever. Plato and Socrates in the classical age of Greece and Descartes before the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, promoted and accepted the duality of mind and brain.
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- In an especially engaging piece, Mark Schiefsky deals with Galen's use of tripartite psychology in his medical philosophy (or, rather, in his philosophical medicine), and he analyzes (and defends) Galen's anatomical arguments for the existence of three distinct parts or sources of motivation within the soul.
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"The Human mind as a ""tabula rasa""" John Locke in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding restated the importance of the experience of the senses over speculation and sets out the case that the human mind at birth is a complete, but receptive, blank slate ( scraped tablet or tabula rasa ) upon which experience imprints knowledge.
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Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the Father of Psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychological pathology by means of dialogue between the patient and the psychoanalyst.ne of Freud's most important contributions is the idea that the unconscious mind holds the key to understanding conscious thoughts and behavior, and the role that dreams play in unlocking what is hidden or repressed beneath conscious awareness.
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A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams Combining Hobson's activation synthesis hypothesis with Solms' findings, the continual-activation theory of dreaming presented by Jie Zhang proposes that dreaming is a result of brain activation and synthesis; at the same time, dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.arnow's theory is a reworking of Freud's theory of dreams in which Freud's unconscious is replaced with the long-term memory system and Freud's Dream Work describes the structure of long-term memory.
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- A. Calkins was the first woman president of the American Psychological Association. B. Calkins conducted research on dreams, memory, and personality. C. Calkins established one of the first psychology laboratories in the United States.
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- Dualism – The human brain and mind are separate. Known formally as Cartesian Dualism after it’s originator, the 17th century. French philosopher René Descartes. Physical matter, including the body and brain, behaves according to the. laws of nature, and is thus suitable for scientific investigation. The human mind (soul, self, or spirit), which controls human behavior, lacks physical substance--and thus obeys no natural laws, and is therefore. the appropriate purview of the Church. This belief in the dichotomy of mind and brain (that they are separate entities)
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History of psychology Other medieval thinkers who discussed issues related to psychology included: 1  Ibn Sirin, who wrote a book on dreams and dream interpretation; 2  Al-Kindi (Alkindus), who developed forms of music therapy. 3  Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, who developed al-‘ilaj al-nafs (sometimes translated as psychotherapy),
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James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934) (child development) Born in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 12, 1861, Baldwin attended Princeton (AB, 1884; MA, 1887; Ph.D. 1888), where he studied the Scottish mental philosophy of James McCosh (1811-1894), the experimental psychology of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), and the mental evolutionism of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
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Sigmund Freud 1909 photo:Freud sitting left and Carl Jung sitting right. Sigmund Freud (Moravia, 6 May 1856 – London, 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist (a person who treats the nervous system). He invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis. Freud is important in psychology because he studied the unconscious mind. The unconscious part of the mind cannot be easily controlled or noticed by a person. In 1860 his family moved with their little boy to Vienna.