GREAT THINKERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

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GREAT THINKERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
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EARLY TREATMENT IN AMERICA

• BENJAMIN RUSH MORAL TREATMENT
• THE TRANQUILIZING CHAIR
• RUSHS THUNDERBOLT

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MEDIEVAL MEDICAL PRACTICES

• TREPHINING
• FLAGELLANTS
• BLOODLETTING

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THE CRIB
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THE STRAITJACKET
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REFORMS ARE NEEDED

• THE MENTALLY ILL WERE JAILED
• DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
• NO SEPARATION OF MENTAL PATIENTS FROM CRIMINALS

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DOROTHEA DIX

• A TEACHER AND SOCIAL REFORMER
• A SPOKESPERSON FOR REFORM
• HER ACHIEVEMENTS

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CIRCULATING CHAIR

• USED IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• USED IN THE TREATMENT OF DERESSION
• REVOLUTIONARY NEW IDEAS / SIGMUND FREUD

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BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR

• AN ORGANISMS FUNCTIONING CAN BE EXPLAINED IN
  TERMS OF THE BODILY STRUCTURE AND BIOCHEMICAL
  PROCESSES THAT UNDERLIE BEHAVIOR

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ROGER SPERRY 19131994

• BECAME FAMOUS IN THE AREA OF NEUROBIOLOGY
• A PIONEER IN SPLIT-BRAIN RESEARCH
• WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1981

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TWO BRAINS

• THE BRAIN IS DIVIDED INTO TWO HEMISPHERES
• EACH HEMISPHERE HAS DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS
• THE HEMISPHERES ARE CONNECTED BY THE CORPUS
  CALLOSUM

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SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

• SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGISTS STUDY HOW ETHNICITY,
  GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
  INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOR

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SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

• THE NEWEST APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR
• MIXTURE OF SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

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SOME SOCIOCULTURAL THINKERS

• JEAN PIAGET
• HARRY HARLOW
• ALBERT BANDURA
• SOLOMAN ASCH
• G. STANLEY HALL
• STANLEY MILGRAM