PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ibn Tufail, Tabula Rasa, Pineal Gland

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Megan McCarthy

Document Summary

Philosophical origins: socrates and plato (400 bc)- said the mind was separate from the body. They saw the mind as a non-physical entity & socrates believed the mind came from heaven and lived on after death of the body. Our mind already contained all of our knowledge from birth: aristotle- mind & body are connected. Knowledge comes from experience (mind cannot exist without body) Mind is a blank slate which we fill up: avicenna you must experience things directly in order to gain knowledge & feelings. Ibn tufail- made a tale to demonstrate this idea. Interest in finding natural laws through science: can these be applied to human beings, newton came up with gravity, dissection showed an anatomical view of the human body. John locke proposed that the mind and body could be made of the same substance and the mind is a physical entity: he said knowledge must not be innate.