PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning, Psychoactive Drug
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Chapter 2 - changing conceptions of mental illness: historical consideration in understand psychopathology: Psychology seeks to describe and understand human behaviour and experience. The role of the body and its involvement in our mental process was a historical conception that has influenced psychology. No one today would think of the heart being involved in memory as did aristotle in the 4th century bce. Ancient greek and roman influences- mental illness involves the brain. Greeks believed that complex processes could be understood by breaking them down into part. Greek suggested that all things in the world can be understood in the terms of just. 4 elements; earth ,fire , water and air. These 4 elements to the form of what were called humors, which were yellow bile (fire), blood (air), phlegem (water) and black bile (earth). Blood was associated with the heart black bile was the spleen, yellow bile was associated with the liver, and phlegen with the brain.
