PSYCH 120H Lecture Notes - Lecture 86: Hindbrain, Ferdinand Hitzig, Pineal Gland

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Hint: time is right not because anyone in particular happens to be around then. History is able to evolve by what people at that time believe. An ideas or viewpoint that arises before people are prepared for it will not be understood well enough to be critically evaluated hence to the spirit of times. : spirit of the times; zeitgeist is what"s popular at the time. Emphasize the inluence of such non-psychological factors as developments in other sciences, political climate, tech adv. 1. 2 many influential thinkers have expressed the view that psychology cannot be a. If psychology is to deal with the nature of one"s experience and inner mental science. Psychology is not seen as a science b/c of its subjective experience no empirical observation of thoughts. Assumes that everything that occurs is a function of a inite number of causes (d). So if causes are known an event can be predicted w/complete accuracy.

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