PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Slippery Slope, Horoscope, Cogito Ergo Sum
13 Dec 2016
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Effect of childhood experiences on adult behaviour. Pop psych , is more about counselling (commonly assumed knowledge of what people are doing what they are) Psychology is on research in neuroanatomy, brain physiology, language. Isabel briggs myers and katharine cook briggs - personality types ( read in the textbook) Psycho babble - throwing a bunch of psychological words to tell you about what is happening. The enlightenment/age of reason (17th - 19th centuries. Psychology initially borrowed ideas, people and methods from Rene decartes (1596- 1650 (cid:1445)cogito ergo sum(cid:1446) (cid:1445)i think, therefor i am (cid:1446) Argued the mind (or soul ) interact at the pineal gland at the base of the pineal gland is the seat of soul today , most scholars today think decartes was wrong about the separation between. Descartes error : emotion, reason, and the human brain. But descartes was righ on a number of points and his dualism view served its purpouse in his day.
