PSYC-2606EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pineal Gland, Faculty Psychology, Logical Consequence
26 Sep 2016
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Lecture 2: biological approach to behavior (cont. ) Lay aside preconceived knowledge at the onset of the study. Refrain from making generalizations as long as possible. Due attention should be given to negative findings. Refrain from making broad generalizations that overstep the data (external validity). Emphasis on using reason as the appropriate means to attain scientific knowledge opposing the empiricist view. Nerves are not hollow he believed that the nerves were hollow and the carriers of bodily liquids causing movement. Contraction and expansion of muscle is not achieved through inflating or emptying some kind of fluid. He believed that the mind and body were separate with the soul controlling the body through the pineal gland. He chose the pineal gland because it was not duplicated in the human brain and that animals didn"t possess it. One of his major contributions was his assertion that the brain was the most important organ for the mediation of behavior.
