PS263 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Australopithecus, Heritability, Cerebral Cortex
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Zeitgeist: the way we tend to think about things in ways that have been ingrained in us, the general climate of our culture. The idea of human processes falls into two categories: is it physiological or psychological. In the western cultures, after the dark ages the people started to turn away from the church and started to find answers about the world by directly observing them. Much of the scientific knowledge that accumulated during the renaissance was at odds with the church dictates. However the conflict was resolved by rene descartes. But at the same time experimental psychology was taking root in north america, ethology the study of animal behavior in the wild, was becoming the dominant approach to the study of behavior in europe. Julien offroy- lived in exile because he published a pamphlet that stated that thoughts came from the brain.
