PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Mental Chronometry, Folk Psychology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO258
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

Minority report sci-fi film where precogs could arrest killers before they committed the crime. Folk psychology: assumptions and theories based on everyday behaviour (ex. common sense) Creates and controls mental functions and represents information (allows us to interact with the world) Allows us to communicate and share emotion. Constantly working (when we"re doing any task) Sometimes makes mistakes (ex. forgetting people"s names) Theory of science: study using observations (not just deduction) We are born with knowledge about the world we just need to access it (by asking a lot of questions) The mind is a part of the physical world. We can develop explanations about worldly phenomenon. Creation of scientific method using reasoning and observation. 2 ancient greece assumptions still hold (we can study and explain the world) But the mind isn"t a part of the physical world (because if it was, we would be able to read people"s thought before they think it)