PSY-1200 Chapter Notes -Hermann Von Helmholtz, Wilhelm Wundt, Tabula Rasa
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Psychology: the scienti c study of behavior, mental processes, and brain functions. What we do and why we do it . Introspection: the personal observation of our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Kevin boyack generated a map showing the extent to which each of the sciences are most in uential and what other sciences they in uence. Psychology is one of the 7 major hub sciences, w/ strong connections to medicine, social sciences, and education. Mind: the brain and its activities, including thought, emotion, and behavior. Philosophy: the discipline that systematically examines basic concepts, including the source of knowledge. Aristotle (384 - 322 bce) believed that all knowledge is gained through sensory experience. John locke (1632 - 1704) viewed the mind as a blank slate. Natural sciences: studies the physical and biological events that occur in nature. Psychologists answer questions traditionally posed by philosophers by borrowing the methods of the natural sciences.
