PSYC 4008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Species Problem, Social Darwinism, Catastrophism
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Laissez faire: it means let them do, people talk about capitalism. It means it allowed capitalism without government control. Germany was progressive: great in science and medicine, know the individuals and their accomplishments. He is associated with the school of structuralism. He is associated with the structure of immediate experience. He thought that complex experiences were create by compound simpler experiences. Vaunt"s methods: introspection? (his term was internal perception, he did think self-observation could be related to structural phenomenon. Colpait (how is he different from vaunt) E: studying memory, interested in passive processes. Muller: passive processes were more important. There is a technical term for muscle sense: what is it, i know my muscle is in the back. He called the materialistic view of mind, night, which means darkness. Know the context, central issues at the time. Lyle and maulthus contributed ideas to the theory of evolution. The theory from design: (the new term for it is intelligence)
