PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Pineal Gland, Empiricism, Psych
15 Oct 2020
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Stimuli in the external environment are assumed to be the cause of all involuntary behavior descartes assumed 1 set of nerves was involved. Assumed involuntary mechanism was the only one available to animals other than humans animals lacked free will and were incapable of conscious action. Mind was assumed to be nonphysical entity connected to physical body through pineal gland. Nativism people are born with innate ideas about certain things. Hobbes hedonism: people do things in the pursuit of pleasure and avoid pain. Aristotle: 1) contiguity 2) similarity 3) contrast. Contiguity most prominent and states that if 2 events repeatedly occur together in space/time, they will become linked or associated. Similarity and contrasting two things will become associated if they are. The definition of learning similar or contrasting. Learning: an enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses.
