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History of the Mind
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Plato correctly located mind in the brain,
however his student Aristotle believed that
mind was in the heart.
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Ancient conceptions about mind
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Today we believe mind and brain are faces of
the same coin. Everything that is psychological
is simultaneously biological.
OBJECTIVE 4-1
| Explain why psychologists are concerned with human biology, and describe the ill-fated phrenology theory.