Psychologic Models and Theories

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• Psychologic Models and Theories

  List of most important psychologic models and theories

  • is_parent Renaissance & Early Modern

    Renewed interest in Platonism and Hermetic soul cosmologies. Descartes: radical dualism—soul (res cogitans) and body (res extensa). Human soul seen as sea

    • is_parent Cogito ergo sum 🔒 ·

      "Accordingly, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive us, I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; And because
  • is_parent Empiricism and Materialism

    Soul increasingly reduced to observable mental or bodily processes. Locke: denies innate ideas—soul as tabula rasa, a passive receiver. Start of the NATURE / N

    • is_parent Associationism 🔒 ·

      Soul or mind functions through the association of ideas. David Hartley: vibrations in nerves correspond to mental associations. Mind explained through natural l
    • is_parent L'homme machine 🔒 ·

      The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement. Without food, the soul pines away, goes mad, an
  • is_parent Four Temperament Theory

    The four temperaments originate in Ancient Greek medicine. Hippocrates (5th century BCE) proposed that health and personality are governed by four bodily fluids

    • is_parent Sanguinic 🔒 ·

      Element: Air Qualities: Warm and moist Personality: Social, energetic, talkative, lively, optimistic Behavior: Enjoys people, easily distracted, creative, forge
    • is_parent Choleric 🔒 ·

      Element: Fire Qualities: Warm and dry Humor: Yellow bile Personality: Ambitious, leader-like, passionate, easily angered Behavior: Goal-oriented, confident, ag
    • is_parent Melancholic 🔒 ·

      Element: Earth Qualities: Cold and dry Humor: Black bile Personality: Thoughtful, introspective, detail-oriented, serious Behavior: Prone to sadness, perfectio
    • is_parent Phlegmatic 🔒 ·

      Element: Water Qualities: Cold and moist Humor: Phlegm Personality: Calm, kind, peaceful, reliable Behavior: Avoids conflict, patient, compassionate, steady, s
    • is_parent Questionnaire 0 🔒

      We’ll explore a simple two-question tool to reflect on your temperament. 1. Energy Direction (E or I):E = I gain energy from being active, social, or in groups

      • is_parent Solution 🔒 ·

        GPT4o maps the 2 x 2 "answer space" onto the 4-temperament space in a following manner:EF → Sanguine: Energetic, social, expressiveEA → Choleric: Driven, asser
  • is_parent Phrenology ·

    Franz Joseph Gall proposed that mental faculties were localized in the brain.Bumps on the skull supposedly indicated personality traits.Phrenology gained popul
  • is_parent Psychophysics

    Gustav Fechner studied the quantitative relationship between stimulus and sensation. "psycho-physics is an exact doctrine of the relation of function or depende

    • is_parent Weber-Fechner's Law 🔒 ·

      Weber's Law: The minimum increase of stimulus which will produce a perceptible increase of sensation is proportional to the pre-existent stimulus
  • is_parent Experimental Memory Research

    Hermann Ebbinghaus pioneered systematic study of memory.Used nonsense syllables to avoid prior associations. Identified the forgetting curve and spacing effect

    • is_parent Forgetting curve 🔒 ·

      Describes how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it. The curve shows a steep drop in memory shortly after learning, then a slower
    • is_parent Serial Position Effect 🔒 ·

      Discovered by Hermann Ebbinghaus and later formalized by modern memory researchers.Describes how the position of an item in a sequence affects its likelihood o