Chapter 1 Terms

Question 1

What is Dualism

Answer 1

Material body and immaterial soul

Question 2

What is dualism Body?

Answer 2

Part of the natural world, and can be studied scientifically

Question 3

The dualism Dualism Soul consists of?

Answer 3

Super natural entity, operates on free will, Not a natural law and can’t be studied.

Question 4

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

Answer 4

Opened the firs university based psych lab, and authored first psych book

Question 5

First foundational Idea

Answer 5

behavior and mental experiences have physical causes, so they manipulate to scientific analysis

Question 6

Second foundational Idea

Answer 6

Behavior and mental experiences are modified over time through experience

Question 7

Third Foundational Idea

Answer 7

Our bodies produce behavioral and mental experiences are products of evolution and natural selection

Question 8

The three foundational ideas

Answer 8

Natural selection and evolution, Physical Causes, Experiences

Question 9

What is Philosophical influence?

Answer 9

Bound to religion, humans consist of two distinct entities

Question 10

Mechanical Man

Answer 10

Mechanical clocks are pinnacle of tech in 17th as computers are today

Question 11

Descartes and Hobbes idea on mechanical men

Answer 11

Humans might also operate by mechanical means

Question 12

Descartes thoughts on the soul?

Answer 12

Thought it existed through the pineal body between the two hemispheres in the brain

Question 13

Who thought of materialism?

Answer 13

Thomas Hobbes

Question 14

What is materialism

Answer 14

Behavior and mind are subject to natural law

Question 15

Materialism led to what?

Answer 15

Empirism

Question 16

John lock, and James mill thought?

Answer 16

Humans are machines that learn through sensory experience.

Question 17

what is the Law of association by contiguity

Answer 17

If two things happen in the same space they become bound together or associated in the mind

Question 18

Example of association

Answer 18

Baby with red object that tastes tart, and mother says apple when holding it so baby associates apple to the red object.

Question 19

What is nativism?

Answer 19

Some things are inborn and aren’t acquired from experience

Question 20

What’s needed to sense, interpret and record?

Answer 20

Initial machinery

Question 21

L.M. Sechenov focused on what?

Answer 21

Reflexes of the brain that is the cause of every human action

Question 22

What did Ivan Pavlov do?

Answer 22

Worked on reflexes which directly led to development of behaviorism

Question 23

What did Johannes Muller propose?

Answer 23

Different qualities of sensory experience as nerves from different Organs excite different parts of the brain

Question 24

Paul Broca did what?

Answer 24

Published evidence that people suffer injury to one side of the brain one effect the other

Question 25

what supports localization of function theory?

Answer 25

injury to the frontal lobe results a loss of speaking but not other mental abilities.

Question 26

What is Natural selection?

Answer 26

The function of characteristics, the origin of species

Question 27

Darwins work included?

Answer 27

Scientific thought of human nature and humans are in the natural world and can be analyzed like non humans can.

Question 28

natural selection focuses on?

Answer 28

Organisims behave for survival and reproduction, which leads to survival traits in the next generation

Question 29

What are the variations of study

Answer 29

Behavioral, genetic, evolutionary, learning, cognitive, developmental, social, cultural

Question 30

Acronym for Variations of study

Answer 30

Bebe Gives Enough Sex Like Creaming Deeply and Carrying.

Question 31

Neural Behavioral neuroscience focuses on?

Answer 31

The nervous system, and how hormones act on the brain

Question 32

Physiological focuses on?

Answer 32

Internal chemical Functions

Question 33

Genetic Explanation is?

Answer 33

Genes as an explanation

Question 34

Evolutionary explanations are?

Answer 34

Evolutionary paths where characteristics are evolved ( survival and reproductive) Natural Selection

Question 35

Learning explanations

Answer 35

Learning through experience as cause of behavior

Question 36

Cognitive Explanations

Answer 36

Info processed in thoughts, beliefs, memories as an explanation

Question 37

Developmental Explanations

Answer 37

Aged related difference as the explanation

Question 38

Social explanations

Answer 38

influence of other people and beliefs about others as the explanation

Question 39

Cultural explanations

Answer 39

the culture of a Larger society

Question 40

Which are biologically grounded?

Answer 40

Neural, Physiological, Genetic, Evolutionary

Question 41

which are experimentally grounded?

Answer 41

Learning, Cognitive, Developmental

Question 42

Which are socio-culturally grounded?

Answer 42

Social, Cultural

Question 43

Sexual jealousy?

Answer 43

A person who fears their romantic relationship due to another person.