PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward B. Titchener, Mind Stream, Gestalt Psychology
24 Sep 2016
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Questions of interest to psychologists are deeply rooted in philosophy. In fact, questions were initially posed and pondered by philosophers: thousands of years ago. Two relevant branches of philosophy: (about 5 major ones but only 2 are relevant to psych: metaphysics: study of reality. What is the body: epistemology: study of knowledge. Is knowledge mostly innate or is it gained from experience. However, whereas philosophy relies upon reason (spend a lot of time reasoning these questions, they weren"t really scientific. Didn"t really do experiments), psychology is empirical, emphasizing observation and experimentation. ), that the brain is he organ of mental life. Also suggested personality (temperament) arises from balance of four body humours (fluids): blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood: depending on the balance of these would make up your personality, we know this isn"t true today. Aristotle (384-322 b. c: mind and body are the same (not separable)
