PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Floy Washburn, Paul Broca, Sigmund Freud
15 Sep 2016
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Nativism: school of theory that the characteristics which make us unique and human are innate: out nature is what we are born with and is not changable. Empiricism: the environment had a huge role in shaping what we became and how we learned to think and act and other elements in the environment helped shape who we are. Interactive dualism: separation of the mind and the physical body, allowing for communication between the two. Phrenology: traits and characteristics map onto the size of brain regions can be observed through differences in the bumps on the skull. Demonstrated by observing effects of brain lesions in non-human animals. Observation of naturally occurring lesions and associated dysfunction. Physiology: the study of biological processes, especially in the human body. It seems to me that perhaps the time has come for psychology to begin to be a science. Helmholtz and a man called wundt at heidelberg are working on it. -william james.
