PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monism, E-Book, Empiricism
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Office hours: tuesday 11. 30am-12. 30pm and wednesday 9-10 am and by appointment. Buy: iclicker/ books: exploring psychology in modules, 10th edition ebook. Psychology when it still was done by philosophers. Debated over: dualism: mind(soul) and body are separate. Nativism: knowledge from birth/previous lives: aristotle. Monism: mind/soul and body are the same thing. Mind, body consciousness all come from physical matter. All human knowledge is derived from sensory experience nurture not nature. Tabula rasa blank slate we are born with nothing, we learn everything. Some knowledge is innate (born with it) your experiences have limited impact on who you become. There are things you know when your born, the rest you learn. If the soul is real, it must have material. Yes the soul is there, it is real, he even got numbers, only tested six people. The scale might not even be reliable, small group of people ect. The same guy even tested if dogs have souls.
