PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inner Ear, Cerebellum, Random Assignment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Rene descartes: mind and body are separate entities that interact with each other. (dualism) Plato: idea that some knowledge is innate (born with it) (nativism). Aristotle: idea that knowledge is acquired through experience. (philisophical emiricism) History: 1600s: physiologists started studing in brain and relation to behavior, 1700s: found that specifc body functions are related to specific brain areas. Wilhelm wundt: uses scientific methods to study psychological processes, writes first psychology textbook, establish first psychology research lab at university of leipzig. The science of psychology: wilhelm wundt thinks that experiemental methods should be used to study mental processes. Structuralism: edward titchener, student of wundt, thought that complex conscious experiences can be broken down into more basic parts. Functionalism: how behaviours function to let people adapt to their environment: william james: established psychology in the us, charles darwin: his book, origin of species made people reflect on how behavior allows animals to adapt to their environment.