PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Relativism, Ice Cream Cone, Mary Whiton Calkins
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Psychology: the scientific study of mind and behavior. Mind: private inner experience: everything who we are; how we think, feel, interpret, perceive, how we remember things. Behavior: observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals: how we think and feel affect our behavior, question other peoples" behavior. Impact of social media: research question: how social media affects self-perception, social psychology how people interact with each other and how people influence others actions. ), helping people, public health and policy, myths. Nativism: the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn: nature: our biological environment, especially the genes we receive from our parents. Philosophical empiricism: the philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience: nurture: refers to the wide range of environments, both physical and social, that influence our development. From the brain to the mind: the french connection. Rene" descartes (1596 1650: french philosopher that argued for dualism between mind and body.
