Origin of psycology

  • Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE

    Plato

    Student of Aristotle, identifies mind with the brain, interest in mental disorders, difference between body and mind
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    Identifies mind with hearth, great influence pf social and cultural enviroment in behaviour
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    Descartes

    Mind and body are independent,glorification of human reason ("I think therefore I am"),radical mind-body dualism,
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    John Locke

    Empiricism and "historical, plain method," which consists of observations, contribetes on behaviourism
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    Charles Darwin

    On the origin of species,survival of fittest (natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding), contributes in biological approuch
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    Wundt

    Firste ever laboratory of psycolgy in German, psycology became real subject and science
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    Sigmunt Freud

    Interpretation of dreams, influence of unconscious mind on behaviour, focus on childhood, contributes on psycodynamic approach
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    John Watson

    Established the psychological school of behaviorism, conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising