PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis, Classical Conditioning, Radical Behaviorism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Lara Genik

Document Summary

Aristotle questions about relationship between body and mind. Hippocrates first personality classification system (why we are the way we are) Galen of pergamon refined this (stable temperaments) The balance of these 4 things was believed to give the person their personality and. Inherit traits that leads person to be successful and reproduce. 2 people that have brain injuries affect them differently. Parts of brain you use more become larger (phrenology) Psychosomatic medicine (brain connected to physical world hypnosis) Focusing on things that confirm your ideas) looking for proof based on. 1 origin is not more important than another. Need all of them for psych to be considered a science. Introspection (turned out to be not reliable justification for needed systemic approach) All subjective because asking what researchers think. Functionalism (what is the purpose and function of behavior and experience?) Emotion producing stimulus physiological response feeling of emotion. How do they work together? influences : behaviorism.