Psych 210 Exam 1

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rationalism — historical figure(s)

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Descartes

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empiricism — historical figure(s)

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Locke

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social construction — historical figure(s)

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Gergen

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hermeneutics — historical figure(s)

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Heidegger

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"I-It / I-Thou" — historical figure(s)

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Buber

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metaphysical reduction — historical figure(s)

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Plato

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temporal reduction — historical figure(s)

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Newton

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mechanistic reduction — historical figure(s)

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Descartes

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material reduction — historical figure(s)

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Democritus

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evolutionary reduction — historical figure(s)

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Galton

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attitudes of science (3)

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humility
curiosity
skepticism

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assumptions of psychological science (3)

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lawful
deterministic
understandable

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concepts of rationalism (4)

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intuition
deduction
innate knowledge
innate concepts

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concepts of empiricism (1)

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sensory perception

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concepts of social construction (1)

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relationships
pragmatic outcomes

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concluded that both reason and experience are necessary for knowledge

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Kant

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doubted everything; "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I exist)

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Descartes

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"I am linked therefore I am"

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Gergen

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ways of knowing (3)

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explanation
meaning
relation

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explanation (fear)

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fear of death

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meaning (fear)

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fear of meaninglessness

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relation (fear)

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fear of being alone

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theories of explanation (2)

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rationalism
empiricism

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theories of meaning (2)

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social construction
hermeneutics

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theory of relation

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"I-It / I-Thou"

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"Blank slate"; everything we know must be through experience

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Locke

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concepts of hermeneutics (1)

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intepretation

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A combination of metaphysical reductionism acting upon material reductionism

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mechanistic reductionism

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God created everything then put it together. He started it running, like a clock, and then just let it tick by itself. Got put everything in motion but is no longer needed.

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deism (Newton)

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reduce the idea of time to just "the past"; there is no such thing as the present on a timeline because it immediately becomes the past; we don't now what is in the future so we cannot study it.

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temporal reductionism (newton)

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all you really have is the present. the present is a sort of amorphous field and in that field are a bunch of memories, which are the past, and your goals, which represent your future

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here and now psychology

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combination of metaphysical reductionism, because it believes there is a law that governs all organisms (natural selection), it is material reductionistic, because of the focus on our genes, and it is temporal reductionistic, in that it focuses on ancestry

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evolutionary reductionism