Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sickle-Cell Disease, Confounding, Phenotype

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ross Esson

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Philosophical roots of psychology: early greeks humans and gods were quite separate from other living things they reasoned about the world, while animals behaved instinctively (without reason) Aristotle (naturalist): placed humans at the top of a scale of intelligence (but christian scholars believed that humans alone possessed a rational soul, an idea which persisted for centuries: believed brain was located in the heart. Ren descartes: i think, therefore i am . Instinct this problem remained, creating a distinction between the mind and body. After descartes, study of the mind became philosophy, the study of the body became physiology, and psychology evolved from both philosophy and physiology. Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour and the factors that influence it. Behaviour is defined broadly: both mental events or physical ones. Basic research: quest for knowledge purely for its own sake. Applied research: designed to solve specific practical problems uses principles discovered in basic research.