Savas Archive
History
John B. Watson (1878-1958) was mainly responsible for initiating the behaviorism movement in the first decades of the 19th century. Watson was a positivist thinker and therefore insisted
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History
When the American students returned from Germany where they had studied Wundt’s psychology, they had to transform their knowledge into an applied science. The American Zeitgeist had tremendous
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History
One of the most influential philosophers of the 1860s in the USA was Herbert Spencer. He transcribed Darwin’s theory of the Survival of the Fittest to social and
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History
Functionalists are concerned with the question of brain function. The main idea of functionalism is that an organism has the power to adapt to its environment. Forerunners of
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History
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) established the Leipzig laboratory and conducted many studies about the nature of conscious experience. He introduced the following terminology: voluntarism, which describes the mind’s ability
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History
The findings in the field of physiology radically changed the methods in scientific studies. By examining errors in measurement, F. Bessel gave evidence for Locke’s and Berkeley’s findings;
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History
Reconstructing Psychology’s Past. One of the problems in general history is to gather the past’s information and to determine whether the findings are real documents. Also, drawing conclusions
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Philosophy
Child: “How do I know I’m good enough playing the guitar, Dad?” Dad: “When you get goosebumps while playing” You Don’t Play Guitar…Yet? Well perhaps since you
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Business
Are you thinking of becoming an IT administrator? Or perhaps are you looking for arguments to make you feel better about your career choice? Well I’ve thought about the
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Business
Below you’ll find a rather detailed crash course on U.S. Federal Income Taxation and it’s written from the perspective of typical small business owners. This paper was reviewed
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