Philosophical roots of psychology
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- Philosophical roots of psychology
- What is psychology?
- The study of mind (thoughts & feelings) and behaviour (what we say & do). Philosophers have also tried to make sense of mind & behaviour through many ideas, three of which are important to understanding modern psychology
- Dualism and Materialism
- Dualism is is the view that mind and body are fundamentally different things
- Materialism is the view that all mental phenomena is reducible to physical phenomena
- Realism and Idealism
- Realism is the view that perceptions of the physical world are produced entirely by information from the sensory organs
- Idealism is the view that perceptions of the physical world are the brain's interpretation of information from the sensory organs
- Empiricism and Nativism
- Nativism is the view that some knowledge is innate rather than acquired
- Empiricism is the view that all knowledge is acquired through experience
- Dualism and Materialism
- The study of mind (thoughts & feelings) and behaviour (what we say & do). Philosophers have also tried to make sense of mind & behaviour through many ideas, three of which are important to understanding modern psychology
- What is psychology?
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