PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Experimental Psychology, Panpsychism, Monism
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Heraclitus: panta rhei everything flows, idea that perceiver cant perceive the same event in exactly the same manner each time everything changes! Adaptation a reduction in response caused by prior or continuing stimulation. Change difference in time, things next to each other Democritus: the world is made up of atoms that collide w one another. Sensations are caused by atoms leaving objects and making contact w our sense organs. Perception is the result of the physical interaction btwn the. Sensory transducer world and our bodies: a receptor that converts physical energy from the enivornment into neural activity. Nativism: the idea that the mind produces ideas that are not derived from external sources, were born with these ideas. Plato o truest sense of reality comes from people"s minds and souls. Descartes" dualist view of the world: both the mind and the body exist, mond-body dualism existing of 2 distinct principles of being in the universe: spirit/soul and matter/body.
