PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Science, Wilhelm Wundt
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Psychology uses the scientific method to understand thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Psychology uses the collection of data to create a theory, and test that theory to create a conclusion. Since ancient times, ppl wondered which is more influential on behaviour and personal characteristics nature (born with it) or nurture (childhood experiences) Psychologists say: both nature and nurture are important. (e. g. some psychologist study how nature and nurture influence each other on the development of brain) : ptds (post traumatic stress disorder), caused by traumatic events, but research shows that certain genes make it more likely to occur. Historically, ppl thought the mind was in the liver and the heart. Most of history, scholars thought mind and brain were separated. Da vinci probed into the physical body, led to many conclusions on the functions of brain. Descartes dualism: mind and body are separate but intertwined. Now scholars feel the mind is what the brain does.
