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History&Systems Exam 1
Chapters 1-4
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/05/2014

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Determinism
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believe all behavior is caused
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Indeterminism
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human behavior is determined but that the causes of behavior can not be accurately measured
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Nondeterminism
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some psychologists completely reject science as a way of studying humans
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Mind-Body Issue
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Materialism
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Some psychologists attempt to explain everything in physical terms; for them, even so-called mental events are ultimately explained by the laws of physics of chemistry
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Monism
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attempt to explain everything in one type of reality-matter
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Idealism
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attempt to explain everything in terms of consciousness
-physical world consists of ideas
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Dualism
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accept the existence of both physical and mental events and assume that the two are governed by different principles
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Interactionism
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claims that the mind and body interact, mind influences the body, body influences the mind
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Rationalism
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belives that mental operations or principles must be employed before knowledge can be attained
emphasize the importance of logical, systematic, and intelligent thought processes
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Irrationalism
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true causes of behavior are unconscious and as such cannot be pondered rationally
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Empiricism
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maintains that the source of all knowledge is sensory observation
true knowledge, therefore, can be derived from or validated only by sensory experience
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Nativism
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emphasizes the role of inheritance
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Vitalism
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life can never be completely reduced to material things and mechanical laws
living things contain a vital force that does not exist in inanimate objects
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Naive Realism
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what we experience mentally is exactly the same as what is present physically
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Animism
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everything in nature is alive- particularly things that move
-human attributes
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Anthropomorphism
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projection of human attributes on nature
Gods of the sky, earth, water, etc.
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Anthropomorphic Polytheism
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Gods cause events in life- gods have human attributes
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