PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hermann Von Helmholtz, B. F. Skinner, Robert Fludd

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Psychology: the scieniic study of the mind and behavior. Mind: private inner experience of a human consciousness. Behavior: observable acions of human beings and nonhuman animals. William james (1842-1910: first to take scieniic approach to study psychology, wrote the principles of psychology . Analyzes the mind by breaking it down into its basic components: funcionalism: Studies how mental abiliies allow people to adapt to their environments. How do young children learn about the world: naivism: Philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Plato was a naivist who believed that certain kinds of knowledge are innate: philosophical empiricism: Philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience. Aristotle believed that the mind is a blank state on which experiences are writen. From the brain to the mind: the french connecion. Thomas hobbes (1588-1679: argued against descartes, the mind is what the brain does .