AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Father or proto-psychology. Stated “that the brain is but a coolant tp the passion of the heart". He believed on the construct of the mind and that everything is constructed by it; the essential entity of life.
A
Hippocrates
B
Aristotle
C
Rene Descartes
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wilhelm Wundt is the man most commonly identified as the father of psychology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alcmaeon was the first ancient scholar who recognized the human brain as the most important organ in the human body – connected with sensory organs; it was possible because he recognized primarily the construction of the optic nerve.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plato proposed that the human psyche was the seat of all knowledge and that the human mind was imprinted with all of the knowledge it needed. As a result, learning was a matter of unlocking and utilizing this inbuilt knowledge, a process he called anamnesis.

Detailed explanation-4: -He takes psychology to be the branch of science which investigates the soul and its properties, but he thinks of the soul as a general principle of life, with the result that Aristotle’s psychology studies all living beings, and not merely those he regards as having minds, human beings.

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