PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empiricism, Pineal Gland, Drug Development
10 Oct 2013
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Much of our behaviour occurs without awareness. Cognitive psychology doesn"t tell us how good or bad habits and emotions are aquired or modified. Before him people believed behaviour and decisions were completely conscious and deliberate. He believed many things we do are automatics reactions but still believed in conscious behaviour which led into the development of dualism. There are two classes of behaviour, voluntary and involuntary. Involuntary is an automatic reaction to external stimuli and mediated bu reflex response. The physical world causes involuntary while the mind causes voluntary. Stimuli produce involuntary through neural circuits, descartes assumed only one set of nerves were involved and believed involuntary is the only mechanism available to non-human animals. Believed non-humans lack freewill and humans have the unique attribute of being able to have free will and conscious behaviour. Historical developments in the study of the mind.
