PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: René Descartes, Cognitive Psychology, Direct And Indirect Realism
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Rene descartes: cognate ergo sum, he was alive had consciousness and perception, nativist, rationalist, rationalist: meant he tried to logically explain everything, nativist:humans born with baseline knowledge, dualism: mind and body are separate. Tabula rasa: blank slate, humans learn through experience, also an empiricist, this consciousness is seen through the observable world, world is shaped through the concrete and senses, empiricists are very skeptical. Wilhem wundt: early cognitive ndings not possible without him, advocated structuralism: Founded the rst psychological laboratory: overall experience could be boiled down to basic elements, such as periodic table, but with own person"s experiences - sensations, combining and recombining. William james: was a great thinker but not much of a tester to prove his ideas, although he was technically guessing, he was correct in some theories, he talked about sensation perception. Technique of analytic introspection: asking the person for their own experience in response to a certain experience.
