CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Irena Sendler, Cognitive Dissonance, Pineal Gland

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Institutional evil: person behaving cruelly towards another bc it"s an accepted norm among guards. People in roles feel pressure to do this behavior. Right: ted bundy- rapist and murderer, dismember bodies and have sex with corpses. Irena sendler saved over 2500 jewish children during holocaust. Found indiv who wanted to harbor these children. Altruism: doing good at expense of own harm. Not deriving a direct benefit from helping behavior. Plato: greek philosopher: nativism: indpt of environmental output. Philosophical empiricsm: arrived in world ready to take in info from world around us, blank slate. Rene descartes: dualism, mind and body are distinct kind of entities: mind: non-phsyical, atkin to soul. Spirits act on muscles and lead nerves to open up pores in brain to form memories. Right about nervous system but wrong about how functions. William james: mental states are individuated by function both generating behavior and in relation to other mental states. Relied on theories of darwin: natural selection.