PSYA01H3 Lecture 1: Lecture Notes Psych
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To pursue something scientifically one must 1st assume that the behaviour of that thing conforms to some type of natural laws laws that be eventually be understood, specified + used to predict future behaviour. Souls are spiritual entities so they do not conform to natural laws this said, trying to undstd them via a scientific process is pure folly. Magic, falling rocks, volcano bound virgins + a concept called animism. Somebody pissed of g** to please g**, you sacrificed a virgin in a volcano: volcano bound virgins. Belief that natural objects + phenomena + universe posseses souls: animism. Rene descartes: believed that animals are complex biological machines. Cartesian dualism: a machine, controlled by a soul. Tabula rasa: ppl are born as blank slates can be whatever they want to be. Empiricism: believed that we had to see experiments. Frog leg + applied elec current to right leg they move.
