PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal, Neuron Doctrine, Motor System
Document Summary
Didn"t have enough tools to be able to verify certain psychological ideas; could only postulate what might be possible which led to certain theories to be developed. Past theories to explain functions of the mind. Surmised that personality and individual differences could be explained by balances of fluid that one had in its body. Fluids of black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm. How we"re able to take in information and process information Addresses our motor system (how we can react to certain things) Surmised that our body was a hydraulic system where perhaps signals traveled around our body acting as a motor system for our senses of touch, perception, etc. Spiritual entity entering our body when we were born, and spirits leaving our body when we die. With developing technology and resources, people discovered new types of cells, structures within the body. People surmised that maybe these were tied to the system linked to the mind.
