PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tabula Rasa, Hindsight Bias, Normal Distribution
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Historical aspects (prologue: aristotle: the mind and body are connected. Some ideas are inborn (i. e. , innate): ren descartes. The mind is not subject to the laws of physical universe. Science should be based on experience and experiments. The mind at birth is a blank slate. The mind acts only on what enters through the senses. Introspection, structuralism: attempted to discover the basic structures of the mind/consciousness (analogous to the basic elements in chemistry). Freud; role of the unconscious in determining our behaviour. James; functionalism/pragmatism: what is the function of our thoughts and emotions: watson/skinner: tenets of behaviourism. Logic (aristotle and plato maintained that all knowledge can be logically deduced) Science and empiricism (experimental manipulation: many critics of psychology as a science claim it need not be studied at all. But common sense, intuition can lead us to error: hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.