Psychology is the science of the mind and behaviour.The Mind consists of an individual’s sensations, perceptions, memories, dreams, thoughts, motives, feelings, and other subjective experiences, as well as the subconscious processes of knowledge. The mind controls the observable actions, behaviours of the individual. The three fundamental ideas of psychology are:Behaviour and thinking have measurable physical causes.Thoughts, behaviour and emotions are gradually modified by environmental influences.The body is a product of evolution by natural selection. The Christian view of the human being consisted of two distinct but conjoined elements: the material body and the immaterial soul. This idea is called dualism. Descartes concluded that the body was like a machine, capable of functioning on its own. The soul, therefore, must be responsible for all that differentiates the human being from the animal: specifically, human thought. He believed that the immaterial soul acts through the pineal body organ in the brain and sends information...

Deze samenvatting is gebaseerd op het studiejaar 2013-2014.