PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neuroscience, Max Wertheimer, Jean-Martin Charcot
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We are aware of our consciousness and tend to relate it to our behaviour. It gets our body moving and makes plans. We also assume that other people experience similar consciousness to us. We believed that movement etc was controlled by our mind or by spirits. We also inferred that the sun, moon, wind, and tides also were similarly animated. This is the notion of animism, which was given to gravity as well (rocks wanted to be reunited to the ground so they fell to the ground). Psychology as a science must be based on the assumption that behaviours are strictly subject to physical laws, just as any other natural phenomenon. He was a seventeenth century french philosopher and mathematician. His biological tradition led to modern physiological psychology. He assumed the world was a mechanical entity that, after being set in motion by god, ran its course with no divine interference.
