PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Inflectional Phrase, Neuroplasticity

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Rec some of the most infl people in the history of psych. Knowledge is innate or inborn (born the way we are) Nature vs nurture varies from illness to illness and trait to trait. Epigenetics: study the infl of the envo on gene expression (how can nature become nurture) Descartes: dualism- mind and body are very diff. Hobbes: the mind is what the brain does. 19th cent: new era of psych (cent of scientific discovery) The time has come for psychology to be a science . Rxn times as obj measurement of the mind and brain. Stick needle in body (from toe to head), asked person how long before they noticed that they were stuck with a needle. Interested in the subjective experience of the world and the mind (consciousness) Structuralism: breaking down metal processes into basic elements. Eg. i can hear laptops, feeel chair under me . Introspection: method used to inv the subjective experience.