PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Christian Mortalism, Mental Disorder
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Some of these themes traditionally have defined psychology, and all of them guide psychological scientists" study of the mind, brain, and behaviour. i. God, or experience unusual sensations, such as hearing voices. Bipolar dis- order causes a person to have dramatic mood swings, from feeling extremely sad (depressed) to feeling euphoric (manic). Da vinci"s dissections led him to many conclusions about the brain"s workings, such as that all sensory messages (vision, touch, smell, etc. ) arrived at one location in the brain. He called that region the sensus communis, and he believed it to be the home of thought and judgment; its name may be the root of the modern term common sense. In the 1600s, the philosopher ren descartes promoted the first influential theory of dualism, the idea that mind and body are separate yet intertwined. The way descartes connected mind and body was at the time quite radical.
