empirisism,

Empiricism,Sensationalism&Positivism

• descartes >>>>> Empiricism, Sensationalism & Positivism
• empirisicm= most important is sensory info
• Thomas Hobbes
• founder of british empirisicm
• laws of geometry= human behaviour
• galileo's principle of motion to understand behaviour
• humans=greddy &power hungry by nature
• believed in monarchy/'order'
• materialist & monist-mind and body the same
• no such thing as free wil
• human motivation= approach pleasure , avoid suffering

Slide 2

• John Locke=
• mental process exist
• existence of mind& body
• ideas are workings of the mind
• mind could simplify ideas or form complex ideas
• subjective reality exists
• layed a clear path to psychological investigation
• successive desensitization

Slide 3

• Berkley=more to universe than matter, opposed materialism
• human knowledge = perceptions
• god controls laws of nature and reality
• Hume=most significant contributions to modern science & philosophy. Combined Empirical philosophy & newtonian science.
• Impressions were distinctively different to ideas
• people created god- by imagining the 'ideal' person .

Hume Continued...

• law of causalty related to a psychological experience
• ( observational relationship).
• god was imaginary to Hume
• motivation is governed by passions that are common throughout history.
• behaviour is learned by reward & or punishment
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• Legenda: science or god?

Hume continued...........

• humans primary motivation= emotions
• supreme skeptic
• human knowledge= psychological processes & experience
• David Hartley
• behaviour learned through associations which result in habitual behaviours= no free will
• behaviour is regulated by neural behaviour( sensory experienced caused vibrations which cause perception and then the behaviolur
• John Stewart mill
• complex ideas were the result of mental chemistry
• study of individual differences( ethology)
• gender equality

Slide 6

• Alexander baine- 1st psychologist, people initiate behaviours, voluntary behaviours, towards experimental science
• french explained the mind as a machine