PSYC 211 Midterm: midterm 1 chapter notes.doc
16 Feb 2013
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A little key (you ll find i m freakishly organized): Bold terms: correspond to bold terms in the book, for which there are definitions. Italic terms: names of researchers (i don t know if we ll need to know these, but they re there anyways) In ancient times, movements were thought to be made by animating spirits: animism. They ve since abandoned this approach, in favour of physical explanations. Humans think we have something intangible that animates us; a spirit, a mind, a soul. Dualism: the belief that the body is physical but the mind (or soul) is not. Monism: the belief that the world consists only of matter and energy and that the mind is a phenomenon produced by the workings of the nervous system. Scientists believe that we will eventually be able to solve the mind-body problem through empirical, practical and monistic approaches.
