PSY 1101 Lecture : Class 1. Prologue.docx

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

Document Summary

The science of behavior (what we do) and mental processes (sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings) that occur within the brain. A deviation from the norm possessed by an evil spirit, tides, stars etc. Believed that the women were suffering from a dislodged uterus. Like an animal moving around in her body searching for food and water, and depending on where it moved to it would cause different crazy symptoms. Nurture = empiricism (gaining knowledge through experience, through. Is experience due to nature (genes/innate) or due to experience measure, testing etc. ) Descartes (1596-1650): dualism: mind can be controlled by voluntary actions. The soul could affect the body through a voluntary action by tilting a fluid gland in the brain, which would fill the muscle with fluid and make you do this involuntary action. Hobbes (1588-1679): materialism: everything follows the laws of nature including the mind, everything is based on material particles.