history of Psychology

Discuss the mind/body problem, including variables, process, and determinism. Show you understand the positivists solution of psychophysical parallelism and how it solves the m/b problem. When dealing with the mind/body issue the concern is A) is the body directly connected to the physical (brain) events, or B) mental events are separate and through the separateness cause brain events to change their course. To understand the mind/body issue as the positivist seen …

…brain is in a particular state then the mind will be in a corresponding state. ( the following is directly from the hand out) Although mental states are always linked to corresponding brain states, there may be many brain states for which there are no corresponding mental states. Ultimately this means psychophysical parallelism says that mental events do not cause brain events to change their course, they only parallel them. Pages 10 - 16 in handout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**