Unit 1 Flashcards
Biological Approach
Body/brain enable emotions, genes and neuroscience.
Evolutionary Approach
Natural selection promotes survival genes.
Psychodynamic Approach
Unconscious drives and conflicts
Behavioral Approach
Observable responses, Watson and Skinner
Cognitive Approach
Encode, process and store information.
Humanistic Approach
Meeting our needs for love, acceptance, and fulfillment, Maslow and Rogers.
Social-Cultural Approach
Behavior and thinking vary across cultures.
Mind
mental processes
Body
Physical aspects of the brain-nurons
Mind-body problem
About how the mind and body interact.
Socrates
Mind-body dualist, mind has a irrational part that is controlled by the emotions, and this is drawn to the body.
Dualists
mind and body are separate (Socrates/Plato) knowledge born with us
Decartes
body and soul were separate.
Monist
Mind and body are connected.
Bacon
Our brain looks for patterns