PSY100H1 Lecture : History Methods to Post
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Lecture 2 notes history methods to post. Barriers against psychology: descartes : 1600s o o o o. 1600s = people started to invent things during this time. Proposed a systematic account of the body as a machine the mechanistic zeitgeist of time. Humans and animals were complicated machines that consisted with: mind - body dualism. Mind (nonphysical) couldn"t function in the same realm as the body(physical) o o. How to study an immaterial mind: study of physiology started the discussion for psychology, wilhelm wundt o. Physiologist; extremely curious and careful experimentalist: wondered whether two stimuli that struck senses at same time would be. Reasons that it takes 1/10th of a second to reorient human"s attention from the bell to the position of the pendulum. This experiment meant that >> mental processes could be studied scientificially. Influences on psychology often come from outside of psychology. Possibly the biggest influence on subsequent psychology was darwin"s theory of evolution o o o.
