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  2. James Watson - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928) For other people named James Watson, see James Watson (disambiguation). James Watson Watson in 2012 Born James Dewey Watson (1928-04-06) April 6, 1928 (age 96) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Education University of Chicago (BS ...

  3. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Next, William James (1890) worked as a psychologist and a philosopher. His career focused around the idea of free will, which is theoretical in nature. He also assisted in forming the James-Lange theory of emotion, which is based upon many theoretical factors. [5] [6] Sigmund Freud (1905) was also an important pioneer for theoretical psychology.

  4. Psychological behaviorism - Wikipedia

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    Psychological behaviorism is a form of behaviorism—a major theory within psychology which holds that generally human behaviors are learned—proposed by Arthur W. Staats. The theory is constructed to advance from basic animal learning principles to deal with all types of human behavior, including personality, culture, and human evolution.

  5. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Personality is complex; a typical theory of personality contains several propositions or sub-theories, often growing over time as more psychologists explore the theory. [ 10 ] The most widely accepted empirical model of durable, universal personality descriptors is the system of Big Five personality traits : conscientiousness , agreeableness ...

  6. Personality - Wikipedia

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    In fact, James' lecture of 1907 fashioned a sort of trait theory of the empiricist and rationalist camps of philosophy. As in most modern trait theories, the traits of each camp are described by James as distinct and opposite, and maybe possessed in different proportions on a continuum, and thus characterize the personality of philosophers of ...

  7. Behaviorism - Wikipedia

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    Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. [1] [2] It assumes that behavior is either a reflex elicited by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual's history, including especially reinforcement and punishment contingencies, together with the individual's current motivational state and ...

  8. Subpersonality - Wikipedia

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    Stacking dolls provide a visual representation of subpersonalities.. A subpersonality is, in humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology and ego psychology, a personality mode that activates (appears on a temporary basis) to allow a person to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations. [1]

  9. Two-factor models of personality - Wikipedia

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    This would form the basis of the Five Temperaments theory by Dr. Richard G. and Phyllis Arno, in which the ancient temperaments were mapped to the FIRO-B scales (in all three areas), with Phlegmatic becoming the moderate e/w instead of low e/high w, which was now taken to constitute a fifth temperament called "Supine", which has many of the ...