History and Modern Systems

Question 1

Thales

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Basic substance is water

Question 2

Anaximenes

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Basic substance is air

Question 3

Anaximander

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Basic substance is “potential”, boundless higher power

Question 4

Heraclitus

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Continual change

Question 5

Democritus

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Atoms

Question 6

Paramendes

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Change is an illusion

Question 7

Socrates

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Nature of human existence

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Plato

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Dualist, knowledge obtained through reasoning only, pure forms (ideas) -> manifestations of forms

Question 9

Galileo

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Primary qualities (described mathematically)/ secondary qualities (love, anger) = irrelevant to scientific inquiry

Question 10

Newton

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6 principles of science

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Darwin

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Evolution

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Empiricism

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Truth through sensory experiences

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Rationalism

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Truth through rationale/rules

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A Theory Is

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Parsimonious (simple)
Falsifiable (Be able to be proven wrong)
Utility (Useful)

Question 15

Ontological

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What is real?

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Epistemological

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How do we know what is real?

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Determinism

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Biological, environmental, sociocultural

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Indeterminism

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Causes of behavior cannot be accurately measured

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Non-Determinism

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No causes for much of human behavior, rejection of science as a way of studying behavior

Question 20

Occams Razor

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Ideas should always be kept as parsimonious as possible

Question 21

Zeno’s Paradox

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An object can never reach another because it will have to halve the distance infinitely

Question 22

David Hume

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Demonstrative “a priori”, empirical “a posteriori”

Question 23

John Locke

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Simple and complex ideas (sensation/reflection), passive mind

Question 24

Berkley

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Anti-materialist, God’s perception created reality, passive mind

Question 25

Immanuel Kant

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We are not blank slates, intuition of space and time, categories of understanding (quality, quantity, relations, modality)

Question 26

Rene Descartes

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Innate ideas (in which Lock and Berkley opposed), mind and body are separate

Question 27

Pierre Flourens

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Pioneered extirpation in brain research

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Stereotactic Instrument

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Mechanical instrument used to extirpate animals, localization of function in animal brains by destroying parts and seeing what behavior was affected

Question 29

Walter Freeman

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The lobotomist

Question 30

Thorzine

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Chemical lobotomy

Question 31

Phones Gage

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Metal rod through eye/frontal lobe, changes in personality (increased anger, etc) Were these changes due to frontal lobe damage or a traumatic experience?

Question 32

Edward Thorndike

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Puzzle box experiments with cats

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Deduced That Learning Is (Thorndike)

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Incremental | Automatic

Question 34

Gestalt Psych + Fritz Pearlz

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Focuses on the here and now, hand gestures and expressions in that moment, attempts to draw attention to that persons mannerisms

Question 35

Jean Baptiste Lamark

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Spontaneous generation of individual life forms in history Inheritance of acquired characteristics Origin of life

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Alfred Russell Wallace

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Co-discovered natural selection with Darwin

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3 Primary Influences on Darwin

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Charles Lyell: Proposed a old, slow earth Thomas Mathus: Principle of population, population rate is growing faster than the increase in resources HMS Beagle

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Proximate (Nico Tinbergen)

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Mechanism: Psych Ontogeny: Evolution of a behavior over the organisms lifespan

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Ultimate (Nico Tinbergen)

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Adaptive Value: Functional Explanations | Phylogeny: Evolution of a behavior over the species entire existence