PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Zeitgeist, Empiricism, Personality Psychology
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* science is actually a philosophy of knowledge that stems from 2 fundamental beliefs. * empiricism - philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience. * determinism - is the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause and effect relationships. * psychological science is both empirical and deterministic. Influences from the ancients ; philosophical insights into behaviour. * in ancient greece, the physician hippocrates (460-37-bce) developed the world"s first personality classification scheme. > believed that four humours or fluids flowed throughout the body and influenced both health and personality. > sanguine (blood) , choleric (yellow bile), melancholic (black bile), phlegmatic (phlegm) > temperaments of most people would be a combination of these extremes. * psychology did not benefit immediately from scientific revolution of the 1500s and 1600s. > it took until the late 1800s to become scientific. * zeitgeist - refers to a general set of beliefs of a particular culture at a specific time in history.
