PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Awareness Foundation
16 May 2017
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*all content belongs to jordan richard schoenherr & where cited in lecture slides* Experimental psychology memory, attention, problem-solving, reasoning, language. Computer metaphor (ip) a. i. , computer stimulation (cognitive) neuroscience brain imaging, brain damage. Can define by contrasting it against: personality behavioural & internal dispositions, neurology low-level activity of cells, sociality interacting w others, abnormal atypical behaviour. In general, means to think: understand, reason, pay attention, know, experience (e. g. , see, smell, taste, cogito ergo sum" descartes. Norms can change from 1 culture to next & w/o contextualizing act, becomes hard to determine its valence (e. g. , stealing vs. stealing to feed fam) Like any discipline, psychology hasn"t emerge ex nihilo, rather it represents synthesis of multiple disciplines. Philosophy e. g. , epistemology, theory of mind. Physiology & physics e. g. , neural anatomy & function, nerve conductance. Clinical studies e. g. unconscious desires", abnormal behaviour. Differed in terms of whether mind was something separate from body, extent to which mind was active & whether we have complete awareness.
