A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cultural Learning, Monism, Cognitive Psychology
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Psychology: the study of behaviour and mental processes. History: philosophy > physiological psychology (pavlov) > psychoanalysis (freud) > Behaviourism (=study of overt behaviour) (skinner) > cognitive science. Ancient greeks used what we call nowadays common knowledge. First sign of neuroscience: phenology" or organology" by gale; brain is divided in components: the bigger the component, the greater the corresponding mental trait. Psychology: the study of mental processes, behaviour, and the relationship between them. Both a natural science and a social science. Natural scientific: brain and its relation to. Physiologists study physical and biochemical influences on behaviour. Dialectic: the evolution of thought over time: thesis: initial statement, anti-thesis: different view on same topic, synthesis: combine thesis and anti-thesis for new insight. Psychology is rooted in: philosophy: understanding and exploring the general nature of many aspects of the world; often via introspection (=self-examination of inner ideas and experiences, physiology: study of living organisms and life-sustaining functions and processes.
