PSYC 1010 Midterm: PSYC 1010 - Test 1 Notes (Summer 2011)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steele

Document Summary

Buddha traced the root of human suffering to our constant wanting and craving. Confucius believed that people must be understood and treated as best as possible. Yin and yang symbolizes the duality in nature and all things in the taoist philosophy. Socrates and plato differentiates mind from the body. Aristotle however argues that the soul is not separate from the body. Augustine de hippo and thomas aquinas points out that the soul is immortal. ren descartes argues that both mind (and soul) and body produces conscious experience by interaction (interactive dualism). John locke introduces tabula rasa (knowledge is determined only by experience derived from sense perception. Immanuel kant distinguishes knowledge, feeling, and desire within the mind. Hermann von helmholtz and gustav fechner contributed to the development of physiology which eventually leads to the emergence of psychology as a distinct discipline.