history & the scientific method

spiritual beings

 

physical matrial

 

physical process

 

human had a soul

 

we are material beings

 

how do we know which idea is true.

 

material matter

 

materialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

 

high level ability

 

we can study human behavior scientifically because it is determined by natural laws.

 

 

Before Freud

 

Charles Darwin    1809 1882

The question is not what, but why?

why the things look or work as they do?

what is the funtion?   Funtionalism.

 

It's not coincidential , random

 

Introspection is a technique wherein a person reflects upon and reports their personal experience.         

=  ? direct and objective

Early scientists criticized this technique because it was indirect and subjective.

 

Sigmund Freud         1856 1939

Super-ego  

Ego

Id

According to Freud, what is the part of our psyche that is inticntually driven by our basic needs, wants and desires?    

behaviourism

what makes me different from you?

What is the field of psycology called where experiments and theories are restricted to mesures of directly observable response?

Behavioural