Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karl Lashley, Psychoanalytic Theory, Wolfgang Köhler

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: L. Fazakas-Dehoog

Document Summary

Nativism: knowledge is innate (inherited, born with it) Empiricism: knowledge gained through observation and our senses (environment) Nothing can exist within the intellect that did not have its origins in the senses. "tabula rasa" - born with a blank slate overdeveloped brain regions (feel a persons head) Can understand someone"s personality through healing the bumps on their head. Entire brain worked in synchrony to produce general functions. Created lesions in brain to map brain regions. Ivan sechenov (physiologist)all complex behaviours can be explained by reflexes. Used introspection (asking specific people what is happening to them in certain experiences) - not very efficient. Studied the same phenomena cognitive psychologists study today. Studied function of purposes of consciousness and mental process in adapting to environment. The whole is better than the sum of its part. Free association (first thing that comes to mind without editing) Basic research: quest for knowledge for its own sake.