PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Immanuel Kant, Behaviorism, Materialism
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The scientific study of mind and behavior. How is it influenced by culture and society? (social psychology) Evolution of psychiatry as a scientific field. Winding path marked by transitions in how psychology is being studied and defined. Mind and body are fundamentally different things. All mental phenomena are reducible to physical phenomena. Mind = physical activity of the brain. Perceptions of the physical world are produced entirely by information from the sensory organs. All perceptions are accurate accounts of our environment. Perceptions of the physical world are the brain"s interpretation of information from the sensory organs. Perceptions are derived from sensory cues plus other information to generate inferences about our world. Newborn babies born with a blank slate". Some knowledge is innate rather than acquired. Newborn babes born with some knowledge that bagets more knowledge. Duality, dynamic, abstract, beautiful, calm, interested, blank, full, i liked it but it felt unintentionally (perhaps unsuredly) incomplete and a bit boring.
