PSYC 3300 Chapter 1-7: Neuroscience psyc3300 Notebook
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Outline of biopsychology eighth edition by john p. j. Zeitgeist: the general intellectual climate of our culture. Is it inherited or learned? (nature vs. nurture) In western civilization is thought anything that was known by the church was true. Then in 1400 (renaissance or rebirth) things started to change. Rene descartes combined the church and science and said the universe was composed of two elements: 1. physical matter, which behaves according to the laws of nature and is thus a subject of investigation. The human mind (soul, self, or spirit), which lacks physical substance, controls human behavior, obeys no natural laws, and is thus the appropriate purview of the church. The human body was thought to be entirely physical as well as nonhuman animals. Cartesian dualism: descartes philosophy that the human brain and mind are separate entities. Is where (cid:498)the man who fell out of bed(cid:499). parts of ones own body.
