Perspective of Human Behavior Before Psych Notebook Flashcards
In primitive cultures demons,spirits, ghosts, and other supernatural forces are held responsible for human actions.
Shamans, with doctors and priests intervened. (should go on the top but needed a back to the card)
Greeks were among the first to look inside the human being for clues to
Behavior
The nature of man
Socrates
Speculated about emotion, perception, and learning
Plato
Proposed that behavior is subject to the same principle as other natural phenomena and there fore can be scientifically studied.
Aristotle
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the insights of the Greeks were lost. Only beliefs in the precepts of the Catholic Church could save a person. Disbelievers were burned at the stake, books were destroyed, and all of thinking at odds with the church was stifled.
No back of the card
There is still no field of Psychology but the movement shifts from philosophy to science (later physiology)
17th Century
The field of psychology begins to emerge from these two disciplines
Philosophy/Physiology