PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnocentrism, Experimental Psychology, James Olds
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Socrates aristotle and plato considered and debated issues of relevance of psychology, including such subjects as the separation of mind and body and whether knowledge is inborn [nativism] or gained through experience. Aristotle"s theory of memory suggested that memories are the result of three principles of association, similarity, contrast and contiguity. Descartes famously argued for the dualism of mind and body, that the mind and body were separate and fundamentally different, with the mind being immaterial and the province of god . He also believed that processes and functions such as memory, perception, dreaming and emotions were properties of the body. Psychology"s intellectual roots were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology in 1879 wundt succeeded in establishing the first formal laboratory for research in psychology [historians christened this date as psychology"s date of birth] Wundt mounded a campaign to make psychology an independent study rather than a branch of philosophy and physiology.
