Take a few minutes to review what you have learned.

In this chapter, you have been asked to think about the multiple areas of knowledge that influenced psychology since its beginnings and that are still central to the discipline today, including

• Philosophy and its different schools of thought, like rationalist and empiricist approaches to knowledge
• Natural sciences, including the use of observation and experimentation to understand the link between biological and psychological processes
• Social sciences, and the study of the social phenomena and cultural patterns associated with human development and performance

To help you memorize important events, you can fill out this timeline.

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