PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud
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Psych 1/04: areas of specialization, developmental, clinical, cognitive, bio, organizational. Personality: nature vs. nurture, a combination of both, complicated interactions between both, brain or mind or behavior? (what should we/psychologists focus on, conscious experience vs. unconscious, ren descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher: dualism (body vs. mind, body: directly observable, obeys natural laws, controls reflective behavior. Soul: observable only through interaction with body, source of free will/thoughts, uniquely human. Empiricism (contradicts dualism: nothing spiritual, just a body, rejected the notion that there is a soul divorced from the body, believed that all knowledge and thought were derived from sensory experience, believed in a. Model of the mind as a blank slate we are the product of our sensory experiences. Reduced to neural processes: descartes and locke didn"t run a lot of experiments, most of their data came from their own heads, wundt (1832-1920)
