PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Luigi Galvani, Scientific Method, Psy

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Thunhorst Robert

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Psy 1001 - lecture 1 chapter 1. Psychologists gather facts about behavior and attempt to explain them (cid:862)(cid:449)hat (cid:272)auses (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior? . Two historical trends: move from explanations of behavior based on unseen causes to observables, localization of function within the nervous system. Some history: early history, animism, greeks, middle years, rene descartes, luigi galvani, fritsch & hitzig, franz joseph gall, modern years, wundt, schools of thought. Animism: the belief that behavior is directed by spirits. Figure (cid:1006)(cid:1006) descartes" (cid:894)(cid:1005)644(cid:895) co(cid:374)cepts of the pai(cid:374) pathwa(cid:455). 2. luigi galvani: 1737-1798, electrical actions of nerve. 3. fritsch and hitzig: mapping the cerebral cortex, human brain blue (cid:373)otor corte(cid:454) white- somatosensory cortex. E. s. p (most of that stuff on the discovery channel) Wilhelm wundt (1832- 1920: wundt emphasized measurement, observation. School of thoughts: analysis of mind into simple qualities. Analytic introspection: describing conscious experience in terms of elementary parts, i. e. , sensations, simple feelings. William james: 1842-1910, functionalism, mind has a use.