[PSYC 323] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 39 pages long Study Guide!
5 Oct 2016
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Great value on human reason to understand nature. Emphasized we should put merit into scientific thought, we should know cause we observed them. Knowledge must be based on careful observation informed by reason (deductive reasoning) Reductionist approach if we break down big concepts simple things and understand simple things first you can put it back together and understand big concepts. Study simple things to understand complex ones. Allows us to put it back together and understand complex things. Mind-body dualism (cause it was the thought at the time, the body is made of physical matter) Hard understanding how ideas can influence the body and how the mind can be part of health and disease. Limits tools we have in our tool belt . There"s a single fundamental, material level of reality. Nonmaterial activities can have no effect on the material world. Nonmaterial (mind, thoughts, feelings) has no effect in physical body. Reductionism study small parts to understand complex things.
