PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Donald Broadbent, Unconscious Mind, Gestalt Psychology
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Dualism: how mental activity can be reconciled and coordinated with physical behavior. Mind influences the body through a tiny structure at the bottom of the brain known as the pineal gland. 1. 1 the path to a science of mind. Structuralists: people to try to analyze the mind by breaking it down into basic components. Functionalists: people who focus on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. Plato (greek philosopher) argued in favour of nativism and empiricism, which maintains that knowledge is innate or inborn. Aristotle (greek philosopher) believed in tabula rasa (blank state in which experiences are written) and in philosophical empiricism: all knowledge is acquired through experience. 1. 3 from the brain to the mind: the french connection. Rene descartes (french philosopher) argued that the body and mind are fundamentally different things; that the body is made of material substance, whereas the mind (or soul) is made of an immaterial or spiritual substance.
