PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychophysical Parallelism, Solipsism, Epiphenomenalism

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Materialism-- only made up of matter and energy (scientists" view) Solipsism-- only made up of our mind (real world is an illusion) (unpopular view) Dualism-- made up of mind and body. Psychophysical interactionism-- mental events (thoughts) and physical events (real life events) can cause both mental and physical events. Believed by most, but has logical problems (can"t be predicted) Psychophysical parallelism-- mental events can only cause mental events and physical events can only cause physical events. Epiphenomenalism-- physical events can cause physical and mental events, but mental events cause nothing. People who believe this believe psychology is a science; thoughts are immeasurable and this belief doesn"t worry much about mental events. Emergent properties-- properties of a complex system that aren"t seen in individual elements of the system. We can"t see everything that this world is made of; for example. Impact of assumptions on beliefs on psychology as a science.