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CHAPTER Iand
Bgych ology scientific study of
mind behalf
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is the or .
Attempt to use scientific private inner Observable actions
Methods to a dress experience of of human
beings
fundamental questions perception t
about mind and behavior
thought
memories and
,
,
Measurable easier ,
,
feelings when we study humans
t we
study behavior
Doesn't physically
exist , intangible
Nature vs .
Nurture
Plato -
Nato :
nativism is the philosophical view that knowledge is innate
( tubular as a ) and
"
Ares empiricism :
States that we are born as a
"
blank slate we
gain experience as we
grow
together
-
→
There's no right or wrong , they work e.
g .
Alcoholism
Mind and Brain
two different
Benedick argued : that mind and
body are things body ,
is made
of a material substance while our soul is made of in material substances .
things they with each other ?
•
If
they are two different ,
how do interact
this is the problem of dualism or how mental and
physical connect
Thomas Hobbes :
argued that this theory was defective ,
the mind and brain are not two
runs
different things ,
rather the mind is what the brain does
Paul Broca : worked with a patient with Expressive Aphasia due to damage in the left
"
side of his brain known as
"
Broca 's Area →
frontal lobe
patient couldn't speak but understood everything around him
•
The that was going on
could
" "
and only pronounce the word tan ,
communicated using gestures
•
Demonstrates that our mental lives are a product of physical working
starting speech → Producing speech
Broca 's
Area
, STRUCTURALISM
{ psychology physiology
• In the middle of the 19 th century benefited from ,
the study of
biological processes , especially in the human body .
>
Break down the mind into its component parts .
Largely discarded
Herman von Hel Motz
→
Developed a method to measure the speed of nerve impulse
→
stimulus
t
and Reaction
t
time * Reaction takes longer in Ne than thigh ,
estimate it took for a nerve
sensory input from amount of time to how long
stimulus impulse to the brain
the environment respond to such get to .
Withem Wundt →
University of Heidelberg Germany
(
,
opened first
psychology laboratory in 1879
>
Analyzed consciousness , person 's subjective experience of the world and the mind .
•
He later elaborated structuralism ,
the analysis of basic elements that constitute the
mind .
Breaking down consciousness into elemental sensations and
feelings .
some of his studies used introspection subjective observation of one 's
•
, own experience
↳
why did it fail ? Research participants were presented with
a stimulus and asked to report their introspection
differently
.
Each one of us sees life very Cdi scribing brightness of color sound of tone )
,
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