PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Trepanning, Psychophysiology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

The science of behaviour (what we do) and mental processes (sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings) that occur within the brain. Deviance (apart from the general population) and the supernatural (mysticism) Nativism (we were born with the knowledge, experiencing just lights up our knowledge) Empiricism (we need to experience to gain knowledge) M ller (1801-1858): doctrine of speci c nerve energies. Helmholtz (1821-1894): located the mind (mental events) within the brain (rts) Localization of the brain: where in the brain is happening. It determines what evidence you seek and how you interpret it. From speculation to science: the birth of modern psychology. Aristotle asked questions to understand the relationship between body and psyche. His way of answering those questions was to observe and make guesses. Wilhelm wundt (1832 1920) added two key elements to help make psychology a science: Wilhelm wundt opened the rst psychology laboratory at the university of liepzig (1879) a second.