PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Baruch Spinoza, Paramecium, Cerebral Cortex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ron Sheese

Document Summary

If we look at feelings in humans, we can look at different biological structures that evolve: we find a self-regulating capacity to move towards and maintain constancy. Spinoza called it appetite and desire: the body has an appetite and you desire food; your desire for food is the mental cognitive response to the body"s need for food. Spinoza believed that it"s not a distinction in kind; they were two aspects of the same thing this was a monistic system not dualism (body and mind are same thing) Or is it the other way around: william james believed it was the body that reacted first, grover whistle a happy tune. It can be built into some animals, e. g. fear of predators: this would make sense evolutionarily, a researched named hinde has done a lot of studies about this, typically, an adult monkey is afraid of snakes. It is an innate fear but it needs a trigger.