PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Strategic Thinking, Frontal Lobe, Limbic System
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Psychology: systematic study of behavior and experience: major philosophical issues in psychology. Determinism: idea that every event has cause, or determinant, that one can observe or measure (a. 1. a. 1) assumption, not established fact. Monism: physical and mental are one (a. 2. a. 1) mental activity is brain activity (a. 2. a. 2) monism physical and mental are one. Psychophysical parallelism: argument: physical body, and then theres this mind stuff. At birth, mind and body placed in synchrony , mind flows with the body. Whatever happens to the body, the mind experiences. I: brain weighs about 1400 g (~3 lb) in avg adult. Across animal kingdom, brain size and weight are unrelated to intelligence. Within humans, brain size and weight are weakly related to intelligence. Human brain case: humans have biggest brain since fat perpound or something. Brain is in the vat, body is a big illusion from her brain.
