PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Hermann Von Helmholtz, Luigi Galvani, Gestalt Psychology
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Psychology is a very progressive science, very young (as we go through chapter one). Physics and chemistry are very old, and have things in place. Up to 1600"s a lot of sciences were getting in the way, primal period for sciences, a lot of physics of science were going on. A lot of sciences began their empirical investigations. End of 1850-1895 right around here that psychology began to exist in its first form. Answer goes back to the title all about soul . For many years, humans thought of themselves as spirits in material world. Things of god, things of a spiritual world or embodiment of christ. Angels in a physical world everything else follows laws of nature, but we have a soul, spirit something different. There are no degrees of freedom that the potato story, does. Does not have to conform to physical laws. Science is not anti-religion, finds religious ideas useless from a scientific perspective.
