PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gestalt Psychology, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

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Rationalism tended to postulate a much more active mind, a mind that acts on information from the senses and gives it meaning that it otherwise would not have. Felt that hume had gone too far: we experience objects immediately as objects because of our innate power of perception, the belief that the world is as we immediately experience it is called direct realism. The mind contained a number of active powers or faculties; these faculties in uence our thoughts and behaviours (were thought to be innate: were aspects of a single, unifying mind, and they never functioned in isolation. In addition to empirical knowledge there are necessary and eternal inborn truths (nativism) Life is constituted of an in nite number of life units called monads (active and conscious) however differ in intelligence; monadology. Believed in psychological parallelism based on the notion of pre-established harmony; monads do not in uence each other (it only seems like they do)