Psychology – Gleitman
It tries to find explanations to some behaviors and once such explanations are
found, they may lead to practical applications; to hel counsel and guide, and perhaps to effect desirable changes.
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
Any question about bodily movement must inevitably call for some reference to the nervous system, for tu us it is quite clear that the nrevous system is the
apparatus which most directly determines and organizes an organisms reactions to the world in which it lives.
Rene Descartes and the Reflex Concept:
All action was essentially a response to some event in the outside world. Something from the outside excites one of the senses. This transmits the excitation
upward to the brain, which then relays the excitation downward to a muscle. The excitation from the senses thus eventually leads to a contradiction of a muscle