PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Margaret Floy Washburn, Dorothea Dix, Classical Conditioning
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Socrates, plato, descartes: believed the mind and body were separate entities (dualism); most ideas, thoughts, traits were inborn (nature over nurture) Aristotle and locke: believed that the mind and body were connected (monism) and that the mind was a. Blank slate" upon which experience writes (nurture over nature) Nature (innatism/nativism) vs. nurture (empiricism/behaviourism) behaviour results from hereditary or experiences controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours: nature: socrates, plato, descartes, nurture: aristotle, locke, watson, skinner, (wundt, james, titchener) Neuroscience/biopsychology studies how the brain and other body systems create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. Evolutionary /behaviour genetics how natural selection of behaviour traits promotes the perpetuation of one"s genes, reproductive success. Psychoanalytical (clinical) both a method of treatment and a theory of the mind. Behaviour reflects combinations of conscious and unconscious influences. Drives/urges within the unconscious component of mind influence thought and behaviour.
