PSYA01H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Notes
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Animism the belief that all animals and all moving objects possess spirits providing their motive force. Psychology as a science must be based on the assumption that behaviour is strictly subject to physical laws, just as any other natural phenomenon. Has been called the father of modern philosophy and of a biological tradition that led to modern physiological psychology. Descartes believed that the m ind had free wil l-the abil ity to make. Dualism: -the belief that all reality can be divided into two distinct entities: mind and matter. Extended things as physical bodies and thinking things as minds. He believed that physical bodies do not think and that minds are not made or ordinary matter. He however thought different from his predecessors in one important way: suggest a casual l i nk ex isted between t he m i n d.
