PSYCO104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Monism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

> certain kinds of knowledge are innate/inborn ex. children in every culture figure out early on that sounds can have meanings that can be arranged into words, then sentences. >theory that people are born knowing what they should do. He believed a child s mind was a blank slate on which experiences were written: theories of how mind & body related (dualism vs. monism) Body and mind are fundamentally different things. > body is made of a material substance. > mind (or soul) is made of an immaterial/spiritual substance problems: Descartes answer: mind influences body through pineal gland. Mind and body aren t dif. things at all. Thought brains and brains were linked by size [not glands] Observed mental ability often increases w/ larger brain size, decreases w/ damage to brain. Specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain.