PSY 1101 Midterm: Midterm review Comprehensive review notes from the first half of the course. Textbook and lecture notes have been integrated.
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Socrates and plato the mind is separable from the body and continues after death and knowledge is innate. Aristotle the soul is not separable from the body and the body holds the particular parts of the soul. Knowledge is not innate and is derived from experiences and memories. Rene descartes (1595-1650) agreed with socrates. Dissected animals and found animal spirits in the brain and these flowed through the nerves (which are hollow) to the muscles to make movement. Memories formed when experience pores in the brain opened, allowing the inflow of spirits. Both confirmed that the mind is born a clean slate and is shaped and given knowledge from our experiences. One december day in 1879 the new science of psychology was born. Wilhelm wundt and some students did the first experiment in which they had to press a buzzer when they heard the sound and then do it when they were aware of their awareness of the sound.
