Week 2:

• Rene Descartes’s Philosophy
  • Story of moving statue
  • Concept of Soul/Dual Nature
• James Mill Idea of Materialism
• Empiricism
• Luigi Galvini’s Frog experiment
• Paul Broca
• Broca’s Area in Brain related to production of speech
• Wernicke’s Area in Brain related to comprehension of speech
• Human behaviour determined by natural laws and hence is a science
• Clinical and Traditional Scientific Approach of Psychology
• Psychology Before Freud
  • Psychology born in Germany
  • Hermann Von Helmholtz
    • Speed with which neural tissue transfers info
  • Ernst Weber
    • Sensory Stimuli
    • Just noticable difference
    • Weber fractions
    • Psychophysics
  • Wilhelm Wundt
    • Father of modern psychology
    • Introspection
    • Structualism
      • Structure of Conscious Experience
  • Darwin
    • Why the features are the way they are ?
    • Functionalism
  • William James
    • Functionalism
    • Function of psychology processes
• Psychology During Freud
  • Sex and Agression least talked about things between men and women
  • Psychic Conflict
    • It (Biological Drives with immediate Gratification)
    • Super Ego (Perfect part of us)
    • Ego (A state between It and Super Ego)
    • Inner Conflict shaping our behaviour
  • Deal with the cause of conflict
  • Clinical Approach to Psychology
• Psychology After Freud
  • Behaviourism
  • SR Psychology (Stimulus-Response)
  • Albert Experiment
  • Fear can be conditioned
  • Other Fields of Psychology
    • Experimental Psychology
    • Cognitive Revolution at the time of computers
    • Social Psychology at the time of political instability
    • Individual Differences in terms of Intelligence, Personality
    • Cross Cultural Psychology
    • Positive Psychology like empathy, creativity
    • Neuroscience
      • Biological Revolution for understanding the brain eg. fMRI
• Knowind the truth
  • Knowing by Thinking
  • Knowing by Senses