PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coast Salish Peoples, The Roots, Psychophysics

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Michele Mercer

Document Summary

Many myths and ceremonies developed as a way to describe, explain, predict, and control our reality. The coast salish peoples of british columbia passed down their oral history, including customs and beliefs, through stories and songs and dances. Philosophy is the study of knowledge and reality. 384 322 b. c. e. ) posed questions and then discussed possible solutions to those questions. This discourse was the beginning of modern processes of scienti c enquiry. ), that the brain is the organ of mental life. This medieval manuscript illustrates the psychological effects of the humours proposed by the greek physician hippocrates. The illustration on the left demonstrates the melancholia produced by black bile, while the one on the right depicts the joyous, musical, and passionate personality produced by blood. Rene descartes (1593-1650) thought that the brain controlled the body via the movement of uids within tubes that ran throughout the body.