History Of Psych Ch 6

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the absolute

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according to Hegel the totality of the universe. a knowledge of the absolute constitutes only true knowledge.

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active mind

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mind equipped to analyze, organize, modify sensory info and discover abstract concepts or principles outside of sensory exp.

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anthropology

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Kant's proposed study of human behavior. such a study could yield practical info that could be used to predict and control behavior

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apperception

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conscious exp.

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apperceptive mass

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Herbart: the cluster of interrelated ideas of which we are conscious at any given moment

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multiple ideas

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categorical imperative

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Kant: moral directive that we should always act in such a way that the maxims governing our moral decisions could be used as a guide for everyone else's moral behavior.

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double aspectism

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Spinoza's contention that material substance and consciousness are two inseparable aspects of everything in the universe, including humans. also called psychophysical double aspectism and double aspect monism.

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2 aspects

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Hegel

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like spinoza, believed the universe to be an interrelated unity. Hegel called this unity the absolute and he thought that human history and the human intellect progress via the dialectic process toward the absolute.

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absolute truth, dialectic process

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Herbart

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ideas strive for consciousness. combined with a persons apperceptive mass are given conscious expression, whereas those that are not remain below the limen in the unconscious mind. one of the first mathematical and educational psychologists.

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Leibniz

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believed universe consisted of indivisible units called monads. enough monads must be experienced simultaneously in order to have a conscious experience.

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Kant

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believed experiences such as those of unity, causation, time and space could not be derived from sensory experiences making them innate categories of thought. believed moraliity should be governed by the categorical imperative.

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limen

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border between conscious and unconscious

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also called threshold

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occasionalism

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believed that bodily events and mental events are coordinated by god's intervention

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pantheism

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god is omnipresent

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passive mind

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mind whose contents are determined by sensory exp. british empiricists and french sensationalists postulate such a mind.

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physic mechanics

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herbart: how he describes ideas struggle with each other to gain conscious expression.

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rationalism

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postulates an active mind that transforms sensory info and is capable of understanding abstract principles and concepts not attainable from sensory info alone.