Psychology 1000 Midterm: Psych Chapter 1 and 2 Midterm Psychology Frontiers and Application Test Review.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Peter Pada...

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Basic research: research designed to obtain knowledge for its own sake. Applied research: research involving the application of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. Levels of analysis: an approach to analyzing behavior phenomena and their factors in terms of biological, psychological and environmental factors. Perspective: theoretical vantage point from which to analyze behaviour. Mind body dualism: the philosophical position that the mind is nonphysical entity that is not subject to physical laws, and cannot be reduced to a physical processes, body and mind are separate entities; Monism: the philosophical position that mental events are reducible to physical events in the brain so that mind and body are one and the same. Structuralism: an early german school of psychology establish wilhelm wundt that attempted to study the structure of the mind, by breaking it down into basic components, thought to be sensations.