PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Botulinum Toxin, Resting Potential, Sound Localization
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Scientists: thinking arguing debating + experiments and data collection. Dualism: the belief that the mind (soul) controlled the body (machine). Rene descartes believed animals had no soul, just machines. Jon locke: said even mind is a machine. Jon locke: la table rassa: believed people were born as a blank slate (not true). Jon locke: empiricism: figuring out the truth via experiences. Luigi galvani: frog leg experiment showed that body is biological machine. Johannes muller: doctrine of specific nerve: body made of wires. Pierr florens: ablation studies: destroy certain parts of the brain. Patients understood what was being said but not speak, caused by damage of the broca area. Hypothesis: testable prediction about processes that can be measured and observed. Pseudoscience: ideas presented as science but does not use scientific methods. Theory: explanation to a broad range of observations that generates new hypotheses. Biopsycholosocial model: means of explaining behavior from biological psychological and sociocultural factors.
