PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pineal Gland, Wilhelm Wundt
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Psych
Early History
-Points to remember
•Our beliefs are our explanations
-Prehistory
•superstition, nature, sacrifice
-First documented history
•religion, superstition
•beginning of critical thinking
New Thinking: primitive, ancient and modern
-Ancient China, India and Israel
-Buddha: contemplated how sensation and perceptions combine to form ideas
-Confucius: stressed the power of ideas and of an educated mind
-Ancient Hebrew scholars: linked mind and emotions to the body
First Formal, logic and reason
-Plato
•saw the human soul as the seat of the personality
•reason, emotions and appetite
-Aristotle
•student of Plato
•First biological theory of personality
-proposed personality to be product of biological processes
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Document Summary
Points to remember: our beliefs are our explanations. First documented history: religion, superstition, beginning of critical thinking. Buddha: contemplated how sensation and perceptions combine to form ideas. Confucius: stressed the power of ideas and of an educated mind. Ancient hebrew scholars: linked mind and emotions to the body. Plato: saw the human soul as the seat of the personality, reason, emotions and appetite. Aristotle: student of plato, first biological theory of personality. Proposed personality to be product of biological processes. Tuesday, august 16, 2016: proposed 3 major areas of function. Rene descartes(france: saw personality as interaction b/t divine (soul) and primal (physical) forces. meet in pineal gland, creator of cartesian dualism. Niccolo machiavelli(italy: negative perspective on personality, two primary forces: ambitious drive (virtu) and pure luck (fortuna) Wilhelm wundt: father of psychology, started rst psych lab december 1879, univ. of leipzig.
