Focus questions - Chapter 1 Flashcards
FOCUS 1
How will you use the focus questions (such as this one) in the text’s margins as a guide to reading this book?
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FOCUS 2
What was Descartes’ version of dualism? How did it help pave the way for a science of psychology?
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FOCUS 3
What reasons can you think of for why Descartes’ theory, despite its intuitive appeal, was unsuitable for a complete psychology?
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FOCUS 4
How did Hobbes’s materialism help lay the groundwork for a science of psychology?
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FOCUS 5
How did the nineteenth-century understanding of the nervous system inspire a theory of behavior called reflexology?
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FOCUS 6
How did discoveries of localization of function in the brain help establish the idea that the mind can be studied scientifically?
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FOCUS 7
How would you explain the origin of complex ideas and thoughts according to British empiricism? What role did the law of association by contiguity play in this philosophy?
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FOCUS 8
How would you describe the influence that empiricist philosophy has had on psychology?
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FOCUS 9
Why is the ability to learn dependent on inborn knowledge? In Kant’s nativist philosophy, what is the distinction between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge?
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FOCUS 10
How did Darwin’s theory of natural selection offer a scientific foundation for explaining behavior by describing its functions? How did it provide a basis for understanding the origin of a priori knowledge?
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FOCUS 11
How can you use the reviews at the end of each major section to guide your thought and review before going on to the next section?
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FOCUS 12
How do neural, physiological, genetic, and evolutionary explanations differ from one another? How would you apply these explanations toward an understanding of jealousy?
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FOCUS 13
How do learning and cognitive explanations differ? How would you apply each of them toward an understanding of jealousy?
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FOCUS 14
How do social and cultural explanations differ? How would you apply each of them toward an understanding of jealousy?
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FOCUS 15
What constitutes a developmental explanation? How would you apply a developmental explanation toward an understanding of jealousy?
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FOCUS 16
What are some research specialties in psychology that are not defined primarily by the level of analysis employed?
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FOCUS 17
What are the three main divisions of academic studies? How does psychology link them together?
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FOCUS 18
Why is it often more difficult to read a textbook for a course than to read nonfiction that you have chosen on your own?
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FOCUS 19
How can you use the focus questions to make your reading of this textbook more thought-provoking and effective?
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FOCUS 20
How can you use the section and subsection headings, and the section review charts, to preview and review each major idea or argument? Why is the hierarchical organization of these study tools useful?
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FOCUS 21
What purposes are served by the numbered figures and unnumbered illustrations, the terms that are set in boldface italics, the Glossary, the Thinking Critically About…, Reflections and Connections, and Find Out More sections, the reference citations and Name Index, and the Subject Index in this book?
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Thinking Critically About The Study of Psychology
Why might a knowledge of the history of philosophical thought about human behavior benefit an understanding of modern psychology?
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Thinking Critically About The Study of Psychology
What, if anything, connects the various areas of psychology together? Is it reasonable to think of psychology as a single discipline or does it make more sense to view it as a collection of different scientific disciplines?
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Thinking Critically About The Study of Psychology
The biologist E. O. Wilson referred to consilience as “the intrinsic unity of knowledge . . . the linkage of the sciences and humanities.” How might psychology fit into Wilson’s scheme for the integration of knowledge from physics to the humanities?
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