PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karl Lashley, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Karl Popper

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Philosophy is the study of knowledge and reality. First person to come up with the idea of anthropomorphism. Human tendency to assign our human characteristics to objects that are not human. Medicine also contributed: hippocrates developed one of the first psychological theories: Physical and psychological health are influenced by the 4 humors (or vital fluids) Too much blood = good thing; passionate, joyful, musical. Too much yellow bile = bad temper/irritable. Theory was incorrect, but his idea that fluids influence our personality is correct. He was unique in saying the brain was important. Aristotle did not assign importance to the brain. Started a branch of psychology called voluntarism. An attempt to identify all of the elements of consciousness. Looking within yourself to identify conscious elements; a process called introspection. Goal was to describe observable mental processes rather than to explain, predict, or control. Set up first psychology lab in the us at harvard.