PSYC 1010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)
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300s bce- philosophers started to theorize about things like emotion, personality, thinking, motivation. Aristotle- born a blank slate: what we take in shapes us (nurture) Descartes- experiences = who we are more toward nature. Locke- blank slate = surrounding influence us more toward nurture. 1800s variety of advances in the biological sciences. Gall- said based on the texture of a person"s scalp one could tell what kind of person an individual is. Broca- certain parts of our mind that help us to figure out language. One part of the brain responsible for language = maybe other parts of the brain relate to other learnings. Phineas gage- had his brain penetrated by a rod in a railroad accident. He had personality changes: judgmental; his vocabulary changed (vulgar language) Scientists begin to think that a certain part of the brain is responsible for actions and functions of the body/brain.
