PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ernest Hilgard, Immanuel Kant, Empiricism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

*psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind* We try to describe, explain, predict, control : know the general progression for the history of psychology. 1st) william james = father of psychology, focused on the science of mental life/principles of psychology. 2nd) rene descartes = challenged the views of dualism (1600s), believed all behaviors occurred through mechanical means (mind is for thoughts only) 3rd) thomas hobbes = materialism (thought that nothing exists except matter & energy, all behavior can be understood through physical process, thought the body was a product of the brain"s machinery) 4th) john locke = empiricism (human knowledge is learned through sensory experiences), binds sensory experiences into relationships. 5th) immanuel kant = nativism (built in knowledge/feeling and desire to want things), have internal mechanism (refers to objects as a whole) 6th) ernest hilgard = trilogy of mind (1. Motivation (desires: what is the difference between dualism and substance dualism (aka, descartes" dualism)