PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Chain Of Being, Potentiality And Actuality, Unmoved Mover
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May 21st, 2014: contributions to psychology, whole works on memory, dreams, and ethics, strongly empirical believed in making observations and collecting data. During honeymoon, collected seashells and categorized them: observations led him to believe heart was organ of cognition, because: Heart develops the quickest in baby chicks. Warriors wounded in heart had more fatalities than head wounds: aristotle"s ideas about the mind and body: Most complex: 3 types of psyches, each with their own functions: (1) nutritive: grow, self-maintenance (via nutrients), and reproduce (via seeds) (i. e. Plants) (2) sensitive: can perform same as nutritive + sensitive to feeling world, imagine, simple memory, and locomotion (i. e. Animals) (3) rational: can perform same as nutritive and sensitive + recollection and abstract and rationalization (reasoning) (i. e. Two key differences between humans and animals (1) memory simple memory (sensitive) vs. Recollection (rational: simple memory (automatic) e. g. Familiar vs. unfamiliar people: follows three laws of association:
