PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ernst Mach, Data Science, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

History and systems of psychology chapter 5| lecture 3|empiricism, sensationalism, and positivism. Has the most emphasis on the importance of experience (things we see in the real world) Empiricists believe that knowledge is derived from experience, and is usually stressed instead of innate ideas (this knowledge begins with sensory experiences) Tended to describe a passive mind, one that acts on sensations and ideas in an automated, mechanical way. Went to oxford, took practice of medicine and developed an interest in politics. Proposed two kinds of ideas (mental images that could be employed while thinking: simple ideas constitute the atoms of experience because they cannot be divided into further ideas, whereas complex ideas can be analyzed into their components. Disagreed with the no primary qualities, only secondary qualities notion, said that all knowledge is a function of the experience of perceiving person (purely mental phenomena)