PSYC 2000 Chapter : PSYCH NOTES
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Ancient greece: psychology"s earliest roots are in philosophical thinking, early greek thinkers equated the mind with the soul, or your mind, many thus assumed the influence of the divine. However later thinkers questioned the idea universal truths. Introduces the term psyche meaning both mind and soul: student of socrates, thought people were imprinted with knowledge, thought there was theory a realm of forms, learning was a matter of unlocking the knowledge, the tripartite mind: This is where the desires come in: healthy minds balance the 3 centers. Hume (1711-1776: careful and systematic observation of thinking and behavior, basic elements of the mind: impressions and ideas, impressions are what we feel & ideas are what we think about. Ideas propagate by associations: how we get higher thought. Mill (1806-1873: chemical rather than mechanical metaphor, believed the mind was an active force in synthesizing things.
