Questions from study guide

Question 1

What are three three major reoccurring questions in psychology?

Answer 1

1. Mind and Body: How much influence does the mind have in the body
2. Nature Vs Nurture: Are ppl born with certain characteristics or do they learn them?
3. Theorist- Practitioner guide: Should we focus on moving research forward or on applying that research to serve humanity.

Question 2

What are the four types of knowledge in psychology:

Answer 2

1. Legal knowledge
2. Scientific knowledge
3. Popular knowledge
4. Ideological knowledge

Question 3

Who had the principle of two wills? what were they?

Answer 3

• Agustine.
  1. Cupiditas: Spiritual will
  2. Caritas: Carnal will

Question 4

What was Descartes view of the mind and body problem? what was the prevailing thought before he came along?

Answer 4

• Mutual interaction between mind (soul, spirit) and body

- That the interaction between mind and body flowed in one direction.

Question 5

Descartes argued that the mind had only one single function: 2. and all other processes were:
3. “ The soul”

Answer 5

• That of thought.
• Functions of the body
• Soul is nothing with the body

Question 6

What is Descartes reflex action theory:

Answer 6

Undulatio reflexa: a movement not supervised or determined by a conscious will to move.
A movement in which stimulus evokes a response without involving the brain.

Question 7

What were animal spirits and who thought they were in the body?

Answer 7

Animal spirits trigger passion of the soul and cause the body to react.
Descartes