PSY342H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wax Tablet, Cognitive Revolution, Wilhelm Wundt
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Chapter 1 how brain gives rise to the mind. Mental activity or cognition is the internal interpretation or transformation of stored information. Cognition occurs when you derive implications or associations from an observation, fact or an event. Plato believes that memories are like etching on a wax tablet but people differ in hardness and purity of wax which is why some people have better memories [lacks distinction between the substance and function] Rene descartes gave the famous distinction between mind and body [similar to heat and light] John locke argued that thought is a series of mental images. Berkeley argued that not everything can be represented by mental images and human mind uses multiple ways to store information. Philosophy answered a lot of questions but philosophy is based on argument and to produce facts to answer questions, a science was required psychology.
