Psychology Exam #1
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- Monism
- philosophy concerning the nature of the body and the mind-mind doesn't exist in its own right
- introspection
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the self-examination of inner ideas and experiences
- cultural anthropologists
- seek to gain insight into various cultures
- physical anthropologists
- study human evolution from simpler organisms
- sociology
- concerned with larger aggregates of individuals---occupational, societal, economic, or ethnic groups
- Natural Science
- psychology involves study of the laws of nature
- Psychology
- the study of mind, behavior, and relationship between them...try to understand how humans and organisms think or feel or understand themselves
- physiologists
- study physical and biochemical influences on behavior
- physiology
- the scientific study of living organisms and of life-sustaining functions and processes through observation
- social scientific aspect
- how people interact in groups
- social science
- psychology involves the study of the laws of the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of humans and other organisms
- natural scientific aspect
- the brain and its relations to behavior