PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pineal Gland, Donald O. Hebb, Association For Psychological Science

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

Document Summary

What is psychology: the science of behaviour and the mind. Observable actions of a person or animal. Thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, memories, dreams, motives, and other subjective experiences. Based on observable facts/data and well described methods. Psychology"s intellectual parents: philosophy and physiology: classical greek philosophers, such as socrates and aristotle, considered issues such as mind-body and the nature of memory, humans and gods were quite separate from other living things. Humans and gods reasoned about the world. Animals behaved instinctively i. e. without reason: aristotle was a naturalist and placed humans at the top of the natural scale of. Right above the elephant: later philosophers, such as descartes, aquinas, hobbes, hume, and mill, speculated on the mind and emotions, st. thomas aquinas. Tried to reconcile christianity with aristotelian philosophy. Returned to the idea that humans were separate from other creatures. Humans possess a thinking, rational, soul: rene descartes. Restated the dichotomy between humans and animals.