PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tabula Rasa, Wilhelm Wundt, Pineal Gland

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

Materialism: only the physical things should be believed. Reductionism: complex things can be reduced into simpler ideas. Socrates (470-399 bce), plato (428-423 bce), aristotle (384-322 bce), galen (129-210 bce) Plato: born with the ability to acquire language, to learn. Aristotle: learn everything, learn about the world through experience, tabula rasa. Mind and body are both important for health. Recognition that mental illness was a medical condition. Ibm al-haytham: state the problem before you study (hypothesis) Publish findings (in other words, the scientific method) Abu al-biruni: the device you use is prone to error (experimental error) Must take multiple measurements and measure across measurements. People are also prone to error (experimentor error) Galileo started to challenge the bible and aristotle and looked at the skies. Isaac newton came up with the law of gravity and explained what happened in space in the same terms as what happened on earth (general laws that apply everywhere)