PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Sexual Selection, Wilhelm Wundt
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* do self study questions after every chapter!! Prediction of the circumstances that lead to expression of a certain behaviour. The scientific study of mental processes and behaviour. When studying why a certain behaviour/mental process occurs, one can study the influences of: a. b. c. Many myths and ceremonies developed as a way to describe, explain, predict and control our reality. Philosophy is the study of knowledge & reality. Socrates, plato & aristotle posed questions then discussed possible solutions to those questions (psychology) Hippocrates argued that the brain is the organ of mental life (medicine) Rene descartes thought that the brain controlled the body via the movement of fluids within tubes that ran throughout the body. Argued that the 2 are separate, which gives us cartesian dualism. Johannes muller advocated for scientists to study the relationship btwn physical stimuli & their psychological effects. Herman von helmholtz measured the speed of neural impulses.
