Week 1: History & the Scientific Method Flashcards
What is the best way to describe Freuds approach to psychology?
Epistemological approach
What is Dualism?
Dualism is the view that the mind and body both exist as separate entities. Descartes / Cartesian dualism argues that there is a two-way interaction between mental and physical substances.
What does Luigi Galvani’s research with applied electrical currents suggest?
Human behavior is caused by electrochemical processes.
What is materialism?
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
What is Empirical evidence?
Is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.
What was William James main contribution to the field of Psychology?
Was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.[5] James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the “Father of American psychology”
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Was a physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist.[
Name 3 Behaviorist
Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner
What is Experimentation?
The experimental method involves manipulating one variable to determine if changes in one variable cause changes in another variable. This method relies on controlled methods, random assignment and the manipulation of variables to test a hypothesis.
Which part of the scientific process is observational research best suited for?
Generating questions
If the amount of time a student spent studying was positively correlated with grades achieved, what would we expect to see if someone had low grades?
The student did not spend a lot of time studying
What is Epistemology?
Epistemology can be branded as the study of the criteria by which the researcher classifies what does and does not constitute the knowledge.[1] In simple words, epistemology focuses on what is known to be true.
