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This magazine tells you everything about psychology. In this wide content you can read about cognitions, leadership, sex, culture and more.
Wundt used three methods to study psychology
The idols of Bacon are problematic ideas
The four of them are:
The mind-brain problem is the issue of how the mind is related to the brain.
Three main views on this problem are:
Three conditions must be met before an action can be described to free will:
Monads are (according to Leibniz) but energy-laden and soul-invested units. He believed there are four types of monads.
Science’s claim of superiority was based on four principles
Verificationism states that a proposition is scientific only if it can be verified through objective, value-free observation
Problems with this are:
Realism holds that:
Idealism holds that:
Matrialism states that everything is matter.
The three forms of materialism are:
A good counsellor in Rodger’s eyes was characterised by:
Science has seven demarcation criteria. These criteria are:
This video gives a good and funny explanation about Plato's Allegory of the Cave
To better understand the difference between Plato and Aristotle, this is a useful video:
For a fun explanation about Descartes, watch this video:
Do humans operate like computers? To see Kant's view on this matter, here is a good explanation video.
For a quick summary of the history of neuroscience and experiments on the brain, here is a helpful video:
This is a summary of the book: Historical and conceptual issues in psychology, by Brysbaert, M and Rastle, K. This book is about the history of Psychology and how now-day psychology came to be. The book is used in the course 'Foundations of psychology' at the second year of psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
Text Kuhn
Revolutions as Changes of World view
Paradigm changes cause scientists to see the world of their research-engagement differently.
As their only recourse to that world is through what they see and do, we may want to say that after a revolution scientists are responding to a different world.
At times of revolution, when the normal-scientific tradition changes, the scientist’s perception of his environment must be re-educated in some familiar situations he must learn to see a new gestalt.
After he has done so the world of his research will seem, and hence there, incommensurable with the one he had inhabited before.
A paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks t and upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
In the absence of such training there can only be
The invention of writing
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Mind-brain problem: issue of how the mind is related to the brain.
Three main views
Dualism
This magazine tells you everything about psychology. In this wide content you can read about cognitions, leadership, sex, culture and more.
This magazine contains everything needed in the second year of psychology at the UvA.
This is a summary of the book: Historical and conceptual issues in psychology, by Brysbaert, M and Rastle, K. This book is about the history of Psychology and how now-day psychology came to be. The book is used in the course 'Foundations of psychology' at the second year of
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