PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pineal Gland, Baruch Spinoza, Monism

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: John Salamone

Document Summary

Philosophy emphasize memory, learning, and acquisition of knowledge. Medicine/physiology emphasize sensory processes and learning process. Psyche greek word for mind or soul. Ancient greek philosophers discussed: memory, acquisition of knowledge, temporal contiguity associating things together because they happened at the same time. Ancient greek physicians made advances in medicine. In the middle ages, arab physicians preserved greek writings and developed more advanced techniques becoming the most advanced at the time. From philosophy stemmed: physic shaped how people thought about the physical world, chemistry shaped how people thought about the chemical composition of their surroundings. For philosophy they needed to be able to think about living beings in a scientific manner. Descartes: mind and body are separate (dualism, body operated per mechanical principals. Possibly inspired by the steam-powered automatons: the mind interacts with the body through the pineal gland. Spinoza: mind and body are two different sides of the same coin.