PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Floy Washburn, David H. Hubel, Carl Jung
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Research show evidence that female aggressiveness is on the rise. Psychology can help analyze and prevent social problem. Psychologists seek to describe, explain, predict occurrence of such behaviour. Became topic of study in 16th century: psyche meant soul, spirit, mind distinguished from the body. Socrates, plato, aristotle considered: separation of mind and body, nativism=knowledge is inborn, empiricism= knowledge gained from experience. Ma(cid:374)y ideas still li(cid:448)e: aristotle(cid:859)s theory of (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory: result of 3 principles of association: similarity, contrast, contiguity. Philosophy impacted the development of mind, behaviour, human nature. Descartes argued mind and body are separate and fundamentally different: mind= immaterial, memory, perception, dreaming, emotions= properties of the body (naturatistic thinking) Willia(cid:373) har(cid:448)ey(cid:859)s e(cid:373)piri(cid:272)al de(cid:373)o(cid:374)stratio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1012)(cid:1006)(cid:895: blood circulation is a function of the heart. Whyte, gall, broca, muller= insight through systematic/ empirical methods. Hermann von helmholtz= first experiments of human reaction time: separation of sensation and perception, new science: contributions of wundt and hall.
