BIO SCI 35 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cholera, René Descartes, Neurosis

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5 historical perspectives of brain and behavior. Compare and contrast 3 significant figures that extended beliefs of the mind. People didn"t know what was going to happen next, so they wanted to. Knowing science today, we disprove these ideas. Through magic and superstition, people tried to make sense out of unbelievable. Heart recorded evil and good deeds not brain. Wrote out problems on dragon bones and burnt them for fortune. 5 elements - 5 states of power under emperor. Different kinds of materials influence the organ. Hindu medicine: enlightened goodness - brain, passion & pain - chest, animal instincts - abdomen. Disordered thoughts and strong emotions --> physical disease states. 3 part soul: reason (truth, intelligence (sensory perception, impulse (bodily energies) Suggested there is struggle between animal urges and higher intelligence. Aristotle believed in egyptians and wanted to test theory - found that heart regulated all thought and emotion merely based on alcohol flush.