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16 Cards in this Set
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Monism |
Concept of spirit/soul is meaningless. conscious thought is a product of brains machinery. |
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Dualism |
2 kinds of substance, mental substance (the soul) and physical substance (the body). Soul gets info from the body and makes decisions. |
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Nurture |
Human knowledge-thoughts come from physical experience. |
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Nature |
Thought and ideas are innate; we are born with knowledge. |
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Localization of Function |
Idea that specific parts of the brain serve specific functions in the control of experience and behavior. |
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Charles Darwin |
Living things have inherited their mental shape, structure, behavior, etc. through a long history involving natural selection. |
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Natural Selection |
Characteristics useful for survival are passed on (through reproduction) Humans and animals differ only in their evolutionary history. |
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German Experimentalists |
Studied simplest kinds of mental processes-simple sensations, memories, and judgement. |
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Structuralism |
Used to break apart and examine the individual components of conscious experiment. |
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Functionalsim |
Emphasis on the purpose and functions of the mind. |
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Gestalt Psychology |
Organized shape, whole form. Whole organized forms are meaningful units of consciousness; not elementary parts. |
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Behaviorism |
Ideas and mental states are not worthy of study. What we can study and understand is behavior. |
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Cognitive Psychology |
The study of people's ability to acquire, organize, remember and use knowledge to guide behavior, make inferences about the mind through observable behavior. |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
Interested in both structure and function. Interested in both genetic and environmental/experiential influences. |
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Gestalt Psychology |
Whole organized forms are meaningful units of consciousness, not elementary parts. |
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Behaviorism |
Ideas and mental states are not worthy of study. What we can study and understand is behavior. |
