PSYCH

Question 1

What is dualism and who invented it?

Answer 1

Rene Descartes came up with it and it is the idea that the mind and body are fundamentally different things.

Question 2

What is materialism and who invented it?

Answer 2

Thomas Hobbes came up with materialism and it is the idea that mental phenomena are reducible to physical phenomena.

Question 3

Does modern psychology embrace dualism or materialsim?

Answer 3

They embrace materialism

Question 4

What is realism and who invented it?

Answer 4

John Locke invented realism and it is the perception of the physical world are produced entirely by information from the sensory organs.

He believed that the brain only uses information from the sensory organs to produce perceptions.

Question 5

Who invented Idealism and what is it

Answer 5

Immanuel Kant invented idealsim and it is perceptions of the physical world are the brains interpretation of information from the sensory organs

Question 6

Does modern psychology embrace realism or idealism

Answer 6

Idealism.