PSYCH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Materialism, Empiricism, Scientific Method
9 Aug 2016
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Humans started in savannas of europe and and middle east swept to asia and americas. Brain: weights 2-3 pounds; looks like meatloaf; 100 million neurons 100 trillion bytes of processing power. Humans use tools (improve tools pass on to other generations) Language animals can"t infinitely express ideas. Math allows us to understand regularities and then make predictions. How does the brain allow us to interact with the world? mind: mediator between the brain and world. Types of psychology: experimental (this course); clinical clinical: abnormal/ treatment experimental: explore fundamentals. 5 foundations of psych: evolution: genes make brains (chimps and humans share 99% of dna, materialism: brains make minds. 3: modularity: mind is a collection of parts, empiricism: believe only what you can count (intuition makes us figure out what is right and. Idealism: minds make reality what is wrong) the scientific method.
