Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Philosophy,
Physiology
and
Psychology
- 'psycholoy comes from
Greek
words'psyche'(the soul)
and 'logos'(study of a
subject)
- Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
debated issues of
relevance to psych;
knowledge inborn (nativism)
or gained through
experience (empiricism)?
- Aristotle's theory of
memory; memories are
the result of similarity,
contrast, contiguity
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
argued the mind and body
were separate & different (dualism); mind
(soul) is immaterial & the
'province of God'
- believed processes
and functions
(memory, perception,
dreaming, etc) were
'properties' of the body