PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Local Anesthesia, Neurosurgery, Traumatic Brain Injury

• School: UCSB
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1
• Professor: Fridlund

Document Summary

Psychology stemmed from other fields such as philosophy: Monism - physical & mental are one. Idealism - all is thought, material world is an illusion, god is thought, we see ourselves as individual forms but the material world is all conjured up, lord berkeley was famous monist. Materialism - all is physical, many neuroscientists believe, all thoughts are chemical process of neurons & hormones which leads to a stream of causes and effects in your thoughts, reduce everything to physical & chemistry. Could change the wiring of the monist to change them into a dualist or any type of philosopher. Dualism - physical and mental are different planes of reality, soul vs. body, reincarnation. Interactionism - soul and body are two different kinds, yet they interact, renee. Decarte, soul is informed by body & both tell each other what to do.