PY 370 Lecture 7: Review
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Boring: multiples two people discover an idea at the same time. Old history: great men , great events , classic studies , origin myths stories overemphasizing the importance of particular events in psychology"s history, presentist interprets historical events in present day time. John locke: use of reason to arrive at truth, systematic doubt. Discourse on method: systematic doubt, analysis problems into subproblems, synthesis simple to complex, check your work, mind and body are separate. Cartesian dichotomy: animals mechanical bodies, humans mechanical bodies and nonmaterial minds, animal spirits and filaments , mechanical movements, pineal gland as locus in brain. George berkeley: subjective idealism cannot be entirely certain of the reality of material objects, only know we are perceiving them ----- secondary qualities. David hume: rules of association, resemblance: objects remind you of something, contiguity: experience things together, cause-effect: develop an association between the two. John stuart mill: chemical rather than mechanical.
