PSY 1101 Lecture 1: Class 1 PSY1101
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Scienti c study of the mind is relatively recent, before this, people looked at the mind by the way their own minds operated. Plato - nativism - certain kinds of knowledge are with us from birth. Aristotle - we are born as a blank slate, everything we get is from the experience of the world. Extreme opposite from plato, no one holds this anymore. Rene descartes (about 1500y later) - dualism, the mind and the body are somehow separate entities - independent of each other, a soul and a body. We have moved away from this, the mind and the body are part of the same thing, both biological processes. We will not need to remember the year of birth or death of any psychologists discussed. Relatively recent views about how the mind works (goes back about 400y ago) Wednesday, may 4, 2016: first one to use scienti c methods to study psychological processes - ( rst researcher)