PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Ibn Tufail, Tabula Rasa

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

Document Summary

Psychology is the scientific investigation of behavior and mental processes. Scientific test our hunches and intuitions careful observations and rigorous analysis. Mental processes internal, subjective, experiences sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings. Socrates and plato: the mind is separate from the body, mind endures after death, knowledge is born within us. Aristotle: mind and body are connected, knowledge is acquired through experience, mind as a blank slate. Avicenna: human intellect at birth is a blank sheet, knowledge comes from empirical familiarity with objects in the world . Ibn tufail: demonstrated this idea through an allegorical tale in his book. Influenced john locke"s later formula of tabula rasa. Physiology input: hermann von helmholtz demonstrated nerves time to transmit, stimulated frog"s nerves at varying lengths from the muscle, when the stimulus was further away, it contracted slower. Structuralism: wilhelm wundt and edward bradford, examined the individual structures of the mind through introspection, report thoroughly on your experiences.