PSYC 2000 Chapter : 1 1THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Psychology"s earliest roots are in philosophical thinking. Early greek thinkers equated the mind with the soul. Many thus assumed the influence of the divine. However, later thinkers questioned the idea of universal truths, instead focusing on individual experience. Focused on relationship between mind and body. Both were aspects of the same underlying structure. Three types of souls: animal, plant, human. Only the human soul could reason and create. Believed mind could exist separately from the body. Introduced the term psyche meaning both mind and soul. Thought people were imprinted with all knowledge. Learning was a matter of unlocking the knowledge: renaissance era thinking. Body is a machine that follows natural laws of extension & motion. Mind is non-physical and does not follow these natural laws. Body and mind interact in the pineal gland. Main point: there was a shift in thought from the mind and body being one to them being separate.
