Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Desegregation, Clinical Psychology, Monism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Knowledge is gained through observations and our senses. History of studying behaviour philosophical influences (the philosophers) Nothing can exist within the intellect that did not have its origin in the senses. Tabula rasa (latin for blank slate , where we start and is eventually shaped intellectually) Bumps in the skill indicate overdeveloped brain regions. Cranioscopy can understand someone"s personality from these bumps. Localized brain regions for behaviour (before brain scans were local) (flourens) Entire brain (not localized areas) worked in synchrony to produce general functions. History of studying behaviour natural science (the scientists) Natural selection survival of the fittest . Believed that all complex behaviour can be explained by reflexes. Found of structuralism (studied structure & components of conscious & the mind) Studied the same phenomena cognitive psychologist study today. He found that at first we forget things quickly, but as time goes by, we forget things more slowly.