PSYC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pineal Gland, Retina, Signify
12 Oct 2016
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In 17th century: descartes, produced detailed arguments that many aspects of cognition (memory and perception) could be fully accounted for in terms of physical mechanisms. However, many scholars were intent on combining the ideas of aristotle with christian belief. Psuche: what animates or sustains living things; these animators are sets of capacities or faculties; having a soul is like having a particular skill. Vegetative: (cid:858) oul(cid:859) allo(cid:449)s pla(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als to (cid:374)ou(cid:396)ish the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es and reproduce. An animal or sensitive soul enables the more complex functions of locomotion, sensation, memory, and imagination. Vegetative and sensitive faculties cannot exist apart from the body they animate; any more than the skill of a guitarist can exist outside his or her body. The rational soul of human beings enables them to reason consciously and be self reflective. His view: mind and body were inseparable.
