PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phineas Gage, Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism
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Philosophers started to theorize about things like emotion, personality, thinking, and motivation. Aristotle: thought that we were a blank canvas when we were born. I think therefore i am i have these things about me that make me, me. Different ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and characteristics that shape my personality. Locke: can"t know of something until you experience it on some level. Examples: gall, broca- found the place in brain where we produce speech, phineas gage- railroad worker, got hit by metal rod. Brain injuries can do many things that may not be that obvious. Physical damage to the brain creates changes to the personally of the person. Until the lates 1800s, the zeitgeist (the general way people think at the time) was not conducive to supporting the growth of psychology. As those approaches were open to debate, new ways of thinking were born.
