PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trichromacy, Edward B. Titchener, Forgetting Curve
28 Mar 2017
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40 multiple choice questions: definitions, concepts, no dates. Chapter 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10. Persistent questions: know the terms, know the types of dualism, nativism, empiricism, mechanism, vitalism, rationalism, irrationalism, reification. Give something a name and you believe it to be true. Giving something a name = an existence: na ve realism, epistemology, universalism, relativism. Aristotle"s law of association: law of contiguity, associationism, law of similarity/contrast/frequency. Challenges to church authority: movable type (printing, exploration (travel) Renaissance humanism: major themes (slides 11 of chapter 4, individualism, personal religion, anti-aristotelianism, etc. Galileo"s primary and secondary qualities: primary absolute, objective and immutable, secondary relative, subjective and fluctuating. Principles of newtonian science: occam"s razor, natural laws are absolute, natural events can never be explained by postulating properties inherent in them. Bacon"s sources of error: idols of the cave, idols of the tribe, idols of marketplace, idols of the theater. Descartes animal spirits: how he explained the nervous system.
