PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paul Broca, Neuroanatomy, Monism
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Biological psychologists: study biological underpinnings of cognitive processes; including cellular biology, brain anatomy/function relationships and genetics. Cognitive psychologists: mental processes including perception/sensation, memory, consciousness, thinking, memory, and learning. Descartes (1596-1650): rationalism, i think, therefore i am (the only thing you can truly know is that you exist) Locke (1632-1704): empiricism (the only way to knowledge is through observing the world around us through our five senses) Descartes (1596-1650): mind-body dualism; the mind and the body are separate from each other. Hobbes (1588-1679): mind-body monism (consciousness arises from the function of the brain; the mind is part of the body) Functional localization: specific mental functions are localized to specific brain regions (supported mind- body monism) Avicenna (980-1037) proposed mental functions localized to different ventricles (channels of fluid in the brain) Paul broca (1824-1880) physician, studied speech disruptions following brain damage (saw that the same areas affected would cause the same speech issues) Natural selection: proposed mechanism of evolution of species.
