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What is Dualism

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Material body and immaterial soul

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What is dualism Body?

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Part of the natural world, and can be studied scientifically

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The dualism Dualism Soul consists of?

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Super natural entity, operates on free will, Not a natural law and can’t be studied.

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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

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Opened the firs university based psych lab, and authored first psych book

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First foundational Idea

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behavior and mental experiences have physical causes, so they manipulate to scientific analysis

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Second foundational Idea

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Behavior and mental experiences are modified over time through experience

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Third Foundational Idea

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Our bodies produce behavioral and mental experiences are products of evolution and natural selection

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The three foundational ideas

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Natural selection and evolution, Physical Causes, Experiences

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What is Philosophical influence?

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Bound to religion, humans consist of two distinct entities

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Mechanical Man

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Mechanical clocks are pinnacle of tech in 17th as computers are today

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Descartes and Hobbes idea on mechanical men

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Humans might also operate by mechanical means

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Descartes thoughts on the soul?

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Thought it existed through the pineal body between the two hemispheres in the brain

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Who thought of materialism?

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Thomas Hobbes

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What is materialism

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Behavior and mind are subject to natural law

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Materialism led to what?

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Empirism

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John lock, and James mill thought?

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Humans are machines that learn through sensory experience.

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what is the Law of association by contiguity

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If two things happen in the same space they become bound together or associated in the mind

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Example of association

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Baby with red object that tastes tart, and mother says apple when holding it so baby associates apple to the red object.

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What is nativism?

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Some things are inborn and aren’t acquired from experience

20
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What’s needed to sense, interpret and record?

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Initial machinery

21
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L.M. Sechenov focused on what?

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Reflexes of the brain that is the cause of every human action

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What did Ivan Pavlov do?

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Worked on reflexes which directly led to development of behaviorism

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What did Johannes Muller propose?

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Different qualities of sensory experience as nerves from different Organs excite different parts of the brain

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Paul Broca did what?

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Published evidence that people suffer injury to one side of the brain one effect the other

25
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what supports localization of function theory?

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injury to the frontal lobe results a loss of speaking but not other mental abilities.

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What is Natural selection?

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The function of characteristics, the origin of species

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Darwins work included?

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Scientific thought of human nature and humans are in the natural world and can be analyzed like non humans can.

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natural selection focuses on?

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Organisims behave for survival and reproduction, which leads to survival traits in the next generation

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What are the variations of study

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Behavioral, genetic, evolutionary, learning, cognitive, developmental, social, cultural

30
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Acronym for Variations of study

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Bebe Gives Enough Sex Like Creaming Deeply and Carrying.

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Neural Behavioral neuroscience focuses on?

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The nervous system, and how hormones act on the brain

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Physiological focuses on?

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Internal chemical Functions

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Genetic Explanation is?

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Genes as an explanation

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Evolutionary explanations are?

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Evolutionary paths where characteristics are evolved ( survival and reproductive) Natural Selection

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Learning explanations

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Learning through experience as cause of behavior

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Cognitive Explanations

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Info processed in thoughts, beliefs, memories as an explanation

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Developmental Explanations

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Aged related difference as the explanation

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Social explanations

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influence of other people and beliefs about others as the explanation

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Cultural explanations

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the culture of a Larger society

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Which are biologically grounded?

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Neural, Physiological, Genetic, Evolutionary

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which are experimentally grounded?

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Learning, Cognitive, Developmental

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Which are socio-culturally grounded?

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Social, Cultural

43
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Sexual jealousy?

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A person who fears their romantic relationship due to another person.

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