Psych Notes: 01/09/2014

Key Players in the History of Psychology
Roots of psychology can be traced back 2000 years to the early philosophers, biologists, and physiologists of ancient Greece.
Hippocrates
  • Hippocrates: Greek physiologist who thought that the mind and soul resided in the brain.
  • Plato (350 BC): Greek philosopher that believed who we are and what we know are innate.
  • Aristotle: Plato's student, believed who we are come from experiences 
    • believed in monism: the mind and the body are made of the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
  • John Locke: Believed that knowledge comes from observation and experience
    • "tabula rasa": blank slate in which the environment acts upon
  • Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore I am"; your personality is innate

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