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empirical evidence: |
gainedthrough experience and observation |
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Systamatic: |
performedconsistently according to specific rules and conditions --> so they’ll beobjective |
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Mind-body dualism: |
mind an body are fundamentally different Mind = spiritual entity Body = physical portion ( including brain ) |
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Rene Descartes: |
believedthe mind and body interacted though the pineal gland in the brain |
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Monism: |
mind and body (brain ) are one Thomas Hobbes and British empiricists |
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Grand illusion: |
webelieve we have this great detailed picture of the world but actually a verysmall portion of it |
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Donder’s decision time experiment: |
firstcog. Experiment simple reactionstime ( one light one button) choice reaction time( two lights two buttons ) used the data between the two times to determine how long it takes to make a decision 1/10th of a second difference monism |
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Ebbinghaus’s memory experiment: |
determined how longit took to learn a list the first time. Then waited a specific amount of time (delay) and determined how long it took to relearn the list Forgettinghappened rapidly at first then leveled off evenafter totally forgetting it was much faster to re-learn the list |
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structuralism: |
(Wilhelm wundts ) the mind can be studied by breaking down into its tiniestparts |
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Functionalism: |
(william james ) adaptive ( evolutionary ) functions of the mind |
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Behaviourism: |
(john watson ) observable behaviours Humansare the products of their learning environments |
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Radical behaviourism: |
(BFSkinner) no such thing as the mind we are products of our environment |
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Kohler's "insights: |
put a chimp in theroom with boxes and bannana hanign from ceiling Chimp stacked boxes to get the bannana Goes against behaviouralism |
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Tolman and cognitive maps : |
rats took the mazeto the food not the easiest one |
