PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hallucinogen, Habituation, Absolute Threshold

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Niemiec

Document Summary

Psychology the study of human behavior and mental activities. Socrates thought about psychology as pain/pleasure and the five senses, imagination, desire. Honea: the maximum of pleasure and minimum of pain. Accomplished through eudemonia a virtuous life. Hippocrates felt the brain is the interpreter of human consciousness. Galen: each one is born with a certain temperament and our bodily fluids are connected with our temperaments. 1596 1650 descartes: dualism body is a physical structure and the mind is a spiritual entity. The brain and spirituality connect through the soul, which he though was the pineal gland: couldn"t study the brain. 1588 1679 thomas hobbes: monoism entire human experience are physical processes from the mind. Both mind and body can be studied scientifically. 1821 1894 hermann von helmhotz: studied sensory receptors in eyes and ears, the speed of neuron messaging, color vision, physical space, hard core reductionalist (bio chem physics)