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Category: Philosophy and Psychology
Date Submitted: 09/30/2014 08:32 PM
Psychology - scientific study of behavior and mental processes (mind)
Clinical Psychology - The study and treatment of mental disorders
Cognitive psychology - study of mental processes, especially from a model that views the mind as an information processor.
Empirical evidence - evidence gained through experimentation or observation by manipulating things
Lecture 1:
Why study history?
Not to repeat mistakes - nuclear weapons, flat earth etc
Give credit where its due, pavlov and his dog
Acknowledge assumptions
Assumptions:
Materialism - we can explain everything through physical processes
Reductionism - We can explain complex things through simpler things
Advantages of each - Materialism offers simple explanations while reductionism provides useful intervention
Disadvantages - Materialism is too simplistic and Reductionism can't simplify everything (quantum mechanics)
History and where Psychology came from
1100 - Germany's process of medicine involved the use of astrology. Depending on a month people believed certain body parts bled less.
Greece
Psychology came from 2 words. Pysche - soul/breath and Logos - word or reason which evolved into "ology"
Questions within Greece - What is body/mind? Are we born with all intelligence (we can figure things out)? or is it Logic/interpretation (reasoning things within our mind)
Aristotle - Stated knowledge can only be gained through observation and experiments which is used in modern day science
Descarates: Mind and Body interacted
The Dark Ages:
Knowledge - Is said to have two parts associated with it. Faith/Bible and Aristotle's values
Faith/Bible - deductive (God stated X so we do Y and Z)
Aristotle - Observations and experiments are necessary for it to be true science
Sir Thomas - Merged Christian and Greek thought together
Roger Bacon - Started western science (reintroduced Aristotle's ideas of observation and experiments)
Muslim Influence: Kept and recorded Greek knowledge and...