PSYCH TEST - Prologue Flashcards
Plato’s View of Mind+Body
The mind is separable from the body and continues on after the body dies. Knowledge is innate–born within us
Aristotle’s View of Mind+Body
The soul (mind) is not separable from the body, and the same holds good of particular parts of the soul. Believed knowledge is NOT preexisting but grows from memory
Wilhelm Wundt
Carried out the first psychological experiment involving reaction time; created the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. Used a research method known as introspection
John Locke
His ideas were based on “tabula rasa”, Latin for blank slate. He believed the mind was a white paper at birth that’s written on by experiences
Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Natural Selection
The concept that nature chooses variations within organisms that best enable them to survive and reproduce in any particular environment
Charles Darwin
Founder of the ideas of natural selection and evolution. Influenced not only biology but also psychology
Nature vs Nurture
Do traits develop through experience or are we born with said traits? Concerns the relative contributions of biology and experience
Neuroscience
How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
Evolutionary
How natural selection promotes the perpetuation of one’s genes, how does evolution influence behavior tendencies
Behavior Genetics
How our individual differences are affected by our surroundings versus our genes
Psychodynamic
How impulses and unconscious decisions can affect our actions and behavior
Behavioral
How we learn and apply observable social cues and other behaviors
Cognitive
How we process, store, and retrieve information within our brains
Social-Cultural
How separate cultures have grown differently in ways of thinking, acting, speaking, and interacting
