1.1-A Introducing psychology

Question 1

Dualism

Answer 1

Socrates and Plato believed the body and mind were separate and that only the mind survived after death; also believed ideas were something you were born with.

Question 2

Monism

Answer 2

Aristotle disagreed with his mentors suggesting that the mind could not be separated from the body because mind and body were different aspects of the same thing; believed ideas resulted from experience (nurture)

Question 3

what did rene descartes beleive

Answer 3

He was interested in how the physical body and non-physical mind work together. Trying to figure out the body-mind connection, he dissected animals to view their brains and nerves. The combination of philosophy and physiology is seen as an important step in the birth of psychology.

Question 4

francis bacon

Answer 4

a philosopher who developed the scientific method and emphasized observation and experimentation. he is known as the father of modern science

Question 5

Whose ideas did descartes agree with

Answer 5

socrates and plato

Question 6

John locke

Answer 6

wrote that people are born with minds that are a “blank slate” (tabula rasa). Everything we know has been learned since then. This is the birth of modern “empiricism” –knowledge comes from experiences.

Question 7

empiricism

Answer 7

knowledge comes from experiences.

Question 8

who did locke agree with?

Answer 8

he agreed with bacon in the sense that we must use experiments