[PSY100H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (87 pages long)
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Empiricism: philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience: knowledge is based on observation and is consistent (other people should come to same conclusion when performing same procedures) Determinism: belief that all events are governed by consistent cause-and-effect relationships: ex. Behaviour is governed by internal & external influences. Historical philosophical insights into behaviour: hippocrates (460-370 bce) developed first personality classification scheme. 4 humours flowed throughout body, influencing health & personality. Blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm: galen of pergamon (127-217) revised hippocrates" work. Combination of 4 humours created temperaments (continuous emotional. Phlegmatic (phlegm)- quiet, relaxed, content: zeitgeist: beliefs of a culture at a specific time period. Reason why psychology didn"t take off as a science during scientific revolution- people weren"t ready to accept science applied to human behaviour & thought: materialism: belief that things are composed of exclusively physical matter. Implied (to the people of the past) that people lacked a soul.
