PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monism, Determinism, Kurt Koffka
1 Jun 2017
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The science of mental life (william james, 1890) The study of human or animal behaviour (webster"s dictionary, 1988) The scientific study of mind and behaviour (schacter et al. , 2014) Soul then referred to the spirit or mind that is separate from the body. Two requirements were considered to be the parents of psychology: The body is a physical entity bound by physical aspects. A lot of the behaviours in humans were similar to animal behaviour. To decartes, the mind is would require info about the world around it by various senses and the mind would somehow direct the body to engage in certain kinds of behaviour. He argues that the mind communicated through the pineal. Mind and body are separate, distinct entities involved in the production of behaviour. Materialism-- position that sine nothing exists other than matter and energy the cocnept iour ious ineal nept.
