PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Energy Drink, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Confounding
16 Dec 2013
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Teaches us how we learn information, how we recognize a face, how behaviour is influenced in an environment, how we think, feel, develop, learn, love and grow. There is a scientific method for interpreting and evaluating data. Aristotle and plato contemplated how we learned knowledge and where. Long past but a short history ebbinghaus in 1908 knowledge came from. Descartes (i think, therefore i am) believed that mind and the body were distinct entities linked in a dualistic relationship where mind controlled movement and received information through the senses mind-body dualism. Through flourens, he was able to find that different parts of the brain served different functions because flourens lesioned parts of the animal brain to study the function of regions. Early psychology focused on the mind, today"s psychology focuses on the links between the brain and behaviour. Includes asking questions from different levels psychological, biological and environmental.
