Chapter 1 Terms Flashcards
What is Dualism
Material body and immaterial soul
What is dualism Body?
Part of the natural world, and can be studied scientifically
The dualism Dualism Soul consists of?
Super natural entity, operates on free will, Not a natural law and can’t be studied.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Opened the firs university based psych lab, and authored first psych book
First foundational Idea
behavior and mental experiences have physical causes, so they manipulate to scientific analysis
Second foundational Idea
Behavior and mental experiences are modified over time through experience
Third Foundational Idea
Our bodies produce behavioral and mental experiences are products of evolution and natural selection
The three foundational ideas
Natural selection and evolution, Physical Causes, Experiences
What is Philosophical influence?
Bound to religion, humans consist of two distinct entities
Mechanical Man
Mechanical clocks are pinnacle of tech in 17th as computers are today
Descartes and Hobbes idea on mechanical men
Humans might also operate by mechanical means
Descartes thoughts on the soul?
Thought it existed through the pineal body between the two hemispheres in the brain
Who thought of materialism?
Thomas Hobbes
What is materialism
Behavior and mind are subject to natural law
Materialism led to what?
Empirism
John lock, and James mill thought?
Humans are machines that learn through sensory experience.
what is the Law of association by contiguity
If two things happen in the same space they become bound together or associated in the mind
Example of association
Baby with red object that tastes tart, and mother says apple when holding it so baby associates apple to the red object.
What is nativism?
Some things are inborn and aren’t acquired from experience
What’s needed to sense, interpret and record?
Initial machinery
L.M. Sechenov focused on what?
Reflexes of the brain that is the cause of every human action
What did Ivan Pavlov do?
Worked on reflexes which directly led to development of behaviorism
What did Johannes Muller propose?
Different qualities of sensory experience as nerves from different Organs excite different parts of the brain
Paul Broca did what?
Published evidence that people suffer injury to one side of the brain one effect the other
what supports localization of function theory?
injury to the frontal lobe results a loss of speaking but not other mental abilities.
What is Natural selection?
The function of characteristics, the origin of species
Darwins work included?
Scientific thought of human nature and humans are in the natural world and can be analyzed like non humans can.
natural selection focuses on?
Organisims behave for survival and reproduction, which leads to survival traits in the next generation
What are the variations of study
Behavioral, genetic, evolutionary, learning, cognitive, developmental, social, cultural
Acronym for Variations of study
Bebe Gives Enough Sex Like Creaming Deeply and Carrying.
Neural Behavioral neuroscience focuses on?
The nervous system, and how hormones act on the brain
Physiological focuses on?
Internal chemical Functions
Genetic Explanation is?
Genes as an explanation
Evolutionary explanations are?
Evolutionary paths where characteristics are evolved ( survival and reproductive) Natural Selection
Learning explanations
Learning through experience as cause of behavior
Cognitive Explanations
Info processed in thoughts, beliefs, memories as an explanation
Developmental Explanations
Aged related difference as the explanation
Social explanations
influence of other people and beliefs about others as the explanation
Cultural explanations
the culture of a Larger society
Which are biologically grounded?
Neural, Physiological, Genetic, Evolutionary
which are experimentally grounded?
Learning, Cognitive, Developmental
Which are socio-culturally grounded?
Social, Cultural
Sexual jealousy?
A person who fears their romantic relationship due to another person.
