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Mind Vs Body
Mind Vs Body
i) Pineal Gland
(1) Description
(a) the pineal in the Greek tradition was in the 8th book of Claudius Galen’s On the
usefulness of the parts of the body in which he gave it the name “pineal” because of
(b) Claudius Galen commented that the gland was known before him and considered it
support local blood vessels, which he believed to be the function of all glands.
i) The pineal gland as the valve of the psychic activity of the soul in classical antiquity
(1) The pineal gland regulated the flow of psychic pneuma,” a fine, volatile, airy or vaporous
substance which he described as “the first instrument of the soul between the middle
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-015-2636-3
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pineal-gland/
1) Behaviorism studied human psychology through objectively observable actions (behaviors), rather
i) A subject is presented with a stimulus, and then responds to that stimulus, producing
iii) Any person, regardless of his or her background, can be trained to act in a particular manner
(a) A human learns to associate two stimuli with each other. This type of conditioning
(a) A human learns a behavior by associating it with consequences. This can be done
behavior.
https://www.thoughtco.com/behaviorism-in-psychology-4171770