PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes -Libido, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Pineal Gland
7 Apr 2013
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Learning- one of the biological processes that facilitates adaptation to one"s. Learning to withhold responses, as important as making responses (not crossing a street when light is red) Before him actions were considered the result of deliberate intent- not controlled by external stimuli. Created cartesian dualism: two classes of human behaviour: voluntary & involuntary. Involuntary actions (reflexive)- sense organs sent through nerves to brain. Brain sends to muscles, bypasses the pineal gland and mind. Voluntary actions- sense organs nerves to brain pineal gland mind muscles (carry out the action). Mind was assumed to be a non-physical entity. Created mentalism (concerned with workings/contents of mind) & reflexology (concerned with mechanisms of reflexive behaviour) Nativism- approach that assumes we are born with innate ideas about certain things. John locke- believed that all ideas people had were acquired from experiences- disagreed with nativism: empiricism- - mind gradually filled with ideas/info after experiencing sensory info. Thomas hobbes- believed mind operated as a reflex.
