PSY100H1 Study Guide - Hermann Von Helmholtz, Tabula Rasa, Pineal Gland

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Chapter 1 psychology: the evolution of a science. William james discovered the science of psychology . Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior, mind refers to our private inner experiences, behavior refers to observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals. Nativism philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Aristotle believe a child"s mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) He argued for philosophical empiricism which holds that all knowledge is acquired through experience. Rene descartes argued that the mind and body are fundamentally different things- that the body is made of a material substance, whereas the mind is made of an immaterial or spiritual substance. Thomas hobbes argued that the mind and body aren"t different things; Rather the mind is what the brain does . Franz joseph gall thought that brains and minds were linked, but they are related through size rather than glands.