PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fertile Crescent, Calender, Logogram

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Sohai

Document Summary

Switch form nomadic hunting to settling and farming. Hellenistic culture: interaction unquestioned memorizing and reciting of texts that were expected to be true. Decrease in power of church and newborn interest in philosophy. Need for education and critical thinking, importance of hard work. Finds 3 ventricle and attributes functions to them. Human knowledge= construction of the mind (could be an illusion) Need for interaction between reasoning and observation. Problem of induction : causation is illusion, knowledge only co- occurrence. Empirical evidence that electricity involved in signal transmission. Perception requires interpretation; observation and theories are dependent. Functions are localized in brain; capacity of function corresponds to size of matching brain area. Religion and philosophy as inferior forms of explanations. Everything about science is true; motor of progress. Hemispheres = two separate brains: 1 inferior and 1 superior. French neurologist recognized hysteria as biological mental illness. Compared mental abilities from animals to humans. Tried to discover the structure of the human mind.