PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Central Tendency, Dependent And Independent Variables, Random Assignment

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Matadeen

Document Summary

Philosophy: foundaional thinking for all psychology, talked about the mind. Psychology: scieniic study of mind and behavior. Behavior: observable acions of human beings and nonhuman animals. Rene descartes (1596 -1650: french philosopher, dualism idea that mind and body are separate eniies, mind inluences body through pineal gland. Plato: naivism certain kinds of knowledge are inborn or innate, babies can difereniate sounds, basic plaform for language. Aristotle: philosophical empiricism all knowledge acquired through experience. Mind: enables to perceive and think, mental faculies funcion of mind. Cogniion: atenion, focus, thinking processes, memory, processing speed, reasoning. Thomas hobbes (1588 -1679: argued against descartes, briish philosopher, the mind is what the brain does. Pierre flourens (1794-1867: biologist, argued against gall"s methods, removed parts of animals brains, proved mind is connected to the brain. Physiology: study of biological processes in body, developed methods to measure nerve impulses, methods to measure mental abiliies.