PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Social Cognition, Psych, Floyd Henry Allport
15 May 2014
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From the dawn of ages evidence of the reflections about the essence of human nature since the earliest writings. The greeks philosophers distinction between the mind and the body. Plato mind-body dualism (separate entities) immortality of the soul. Aristotle associationism: the mind is likely to be organized pathe. Ren descartes (1596-1650) the rational soul as the driving force of behaviour incomplete control over the body inhibition of reflexive action subjectivity of perception. The body is an automaton and contains in itself the corporeal principle of those movements for which it is designed along with all that is requisite for its action describing it as a machine mind completely separate. Objects agitating internal substance of the brain mind as a cognitive and motive contiguity as fabric coherence. There is nothing without us which we call an image or a colour .
