PSYC 101 Chapter Notes -Optic Nerve, Depressant, Schizophrenia
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Psyche" = (soul) + ology" = (study of) Private experience (memory, emotions, imagination) are products of physical laws. As a science, it must be based on the ass. that behaviour is strictly subject to physical laws. Psychology: scientific study of behaviour, the mind and the brain. Cognitive psych: study of cognitive (mental) processes. Biological psych: study of biology that gives rise to cognition and behaviour. Reflexes: spinal cord (no need for brain or mind); response to stimuli, brain can control them. Dualism: brain gives rise to the mind but the mind is not a part of the world (follows diff. laws) Believed in free will, suggested causal link b/w mind & physical housing. Role of pineal gland: action = body moves gland to cause fluid to flow through certain nerves, interaction point b/w mind and body (only non-bilateral thing in the brain) Assumed that the world was purely mechanical: challenged the church.
