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Contribution and cultural conditions that gave rise to the biological perspective.
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THE BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1.Contribution and cultural conditions that gave rise to the biological perspective SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ABOUT BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES -Dualism : the view first attributed to Descarte's, because the mind is separate from the body : definition-mind and body are 2 different things -1745 :Julien de La Mettrie came with one crucial insight almost accidentaly. He got a fever and found out thathis physical condition affected his mental state as well as his physical state - therefore he came with the conclusion that physical state affects mental state - French doctor Paul Broca (1861) encountered a case in which a man lost the ability to speak coherently after a head injury -from this he came with the term Localisation of function, which means the belief that specific parts of the brain are responsible for specific psychological processes CULTURAL VARIATION IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE The biological approach is...
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