AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

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Who is Samuel Butler?
A
Known as the “Man of Firsts”. Believed that the mind evolves through different stages (Darwinism of the mind).
B
He extended the theory of evolution to machines.
C
He believed in Geographical Evolution-the idea that landscape will adjust over time.
D
Prominent psychologist that was concerned with the measurement of mental processes, rather than consciousness.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Darwin is commonly cited as the person who “discovered” evolution. But, the historical record shows that roughly seventy different individuals published work on the topic of evolution between 1748 and 1859, the year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 and re-edited in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).

Detailed explanation-3: -The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection, ” which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the nineteenth century.

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