Kafli 1 - Prescientific Psychology

Question 1

Phrenology

Answer 1

Study of the head and the brain. Different part of the brain is associated with different functions. If you had a more active sense of something, that part of the brain would be larger, also your skull.

Question 2

Physiognomy

Answer 2

Study of the face. Make differences about personalities through face features.

Question 3

Mesmerism

Answer 3

Magnets in the body that picked up movements. By moving magnets near a persons body, he was changing the balance which lead to healing illness.

Question 4

Spiritualism

Answer 4

You could communicate with a person through media

Question 5

Mental healing

Answer 5

Using the mind to cure illness.

Question 6

Psychologies I ancient Greece

Answer 6

Plato (wrote books about every philosophical issue)

Aristotle (he gave detailed treatment to the phenomenon of memory, memory is a sort of recreation of past experiences which have left an impression on the mind).

Democritus (first proposed that the world was made out of atoms).

Question 7

Empiricism

Answer 7

Experience is everything. We are not born smart, we learn it. What we think about are representations rather than the object itself.

Question 8

Realism

Answer 8

Thomas ree. We are not thinking about the representation, we are thinking about the thing.