PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Introspection, Visual Acuity, Orexigenic
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri): allows scientists to scan a brain and see what parts are active when a person does an activity. Psychology has 2 types of camps or schools of thought : structuralists: tried to analyze the mind by breaking it down into its basic components, functionalists: focus on how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environment. Plato and aristotle, first to struggle with fundamental questions about how the mind works. Plato argued in favor of nativism: nativism: certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. Aristotle argued for physical empiricism: physical empiricism: all knowledge is acquired through experience. Dualism: how mental activity can be reconciled and coordinated with physical behaviour. In other words, there is a physical body, but it is controlled by the soul. Machine controlled by soul: proposed by rene descartes, suggested that mind influences the body through the pineal gland. Pineal gland: tiny structure near the bottom of the brain.
