PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Revolution, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Jennifer Tomaszczyk

Document Summary

Observable phenomenon, as an example is a rat in a maze, watching it. Mental processes, for instance, when you perceive an orange what the mental process, such as, the color, will i eat it, how i love it, just thinking about it, a feeing, such as i feel great. Plato thought that the mind and body are different. Aristotle, thought that the mind and body are connected. Plato thought that we are born with everything = nature. Aristotle thought that our experiences give us knowledge, = nurture. John locke believed that the mind is a blank sate, and experience is written on the tabula rasa. Rene descartes believed that the mind = the soul, and that animal spirits that connect the mind to the body called the pineal gland, and the spirits flow from the brain to the muscles for movement.