What do you get when you mix behaviorism and humanism? You get social learning theory.
The learning part of social learning theory comes from Skinner and Hull. The social part comes from Maslow. Mix them together and you get Bandura, Dollard & Miller, and Rotter.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Ramón y Cajal in 1899
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| Born | 1 May 1852 |
| Died | 17 October 1934 (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain
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| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | University of Zaragoza |
| Known for | Fathering modern neuroscience Discovery of the neuron Cajal body, Cajal–Retzius cell, Interstitial cell of Cajal, Neuron doctrine, Growth cone, Dendritic spine, Long-term potentiation, Mossy fiber, Neurotrophic theory, Axo-axonic synapse, Pioneer axon, Pyramidal cell, Radial glial cell, Retinal ganglion cell, Trisynaptic circuit, Visual map theory |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906) |
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| Fields | Neuroscience Pathology Histology |
| Institutions | University of Valencia Complutense University of Madrid University of Barcelona |
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934)[1][2] was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologistspecializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgireceived the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.[3] Ramón y Cajal was the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
Hundreds of his drawings illustrating the arborizations (“tree growing”) of brain cells are still in use, since the mid-20th century, for educational and training purposes.[4]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born on the 1st of May 1852 in the town of Petilla de Aragón, Navarre, Spain.[1] As a child he was transferred many times from one school to another because of behavior that was declared poor, rebellious, and showing an anti-authoritarian attitude. An extreme example of his precociousness and rebelliousness at the age of eleven is his 1863 imprisonment for destroying his neighbor’s yard gate with a homemade cannon.[5] He was a keen painter
History & Systems covers both the founders of psychology but also their theories. What we believe is often tied to who we are. To understand one is to better understand the other.
Historically, psychology is the combination of philosophy and experimental physiology. Essentially, we use the techniques of experimental physiology to answer the questions of philosophy. We try to use the scientific method to study the brain, thinking, consciousness, self concept and personality. Tobetter understand where we are, we first must look back at where we have been.
There are five paths to truth, at least.
Knowing what truth is will probably aid our search for it. Defining should precede detecting. But no one agrees on what a fully satisfactory definition of truth would include. Like so many simple everyday issues, truth is more complex when you begin thinking about it.
Wilhelm Wundt gets credit for establishing the first laboratory dedicated to studying psychological issues. But he was one of several people caught up in the zeitgeist of the 1800s. Let’s highlight some of the thinking of the time and, if possible, trace its roots in philosophy.
Experimental physiology has little to do with kites. And this is not Benjamin Franklin’s kite. That kite was flown in June of 1752. Nothing special, as kites go. But it is characteristic of the great scientific breakthroughs of the 18th century.
