PSYC 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud, Talking Cure
2 Feb 2019
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Plato: believed in the idea of innate knowledge. Descartes: argued for illusions (auditory and optical); didn"t trust empirical senses, medieval dualism; believed that the mind and the body were separate. Locke: opposite of plato, born as blank slates (tabula rasa); no knowledge of the world. Darwin: physiological perspective, finches: different sized beaks beaks matched food source beaks changed over generations. Galton: darwin"s work to humans, adaptive family traits (i. e. fingerprints) Intelligence and attention as hereditary/adaptive familial traits: studied reaction times (hereditary) Helmholtz: galton"s work, damage to brain = linked to reaction times, atheist; didn"t believe in dualism: mind and body are one, believed we could find all the causes to everything; humans = robots. Wilhelm wundt: 1st psychologist + 1st research lab (1879 germany, study of consciousness; idea-process & decision-making. Stanley hall: 1st psychologist/lab/journal/apa in north america, europe: psychology = qualitative, skill-strong idea of consciousness, us/cad: science (physics, chem) perspective of psychology.
