PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Karl Lashley, Humanistic Psychology, Donald Broadbent
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Chapter 1: psychology: the evolution of a science psychology. Our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings. behavior. Psychology"s roots: the path to a science of mind structuralists: tried to analyze the mind by breaking it down into its basic components functionalists: focused on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. The philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Aristotle believed that the child"s mind was a tabula rasa (a blank state) on which experiences were written philosophical empiricism. The philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience. A now defund theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain. Broca had the crucial insight that damage to a specific part of the brain impaired a specific mental function, clearly demonstrating that the brain and the mind are closely linked.
