PSYC 210 EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS BUNDLED REVIEW
●● when was psych founded and who found it?
Answer: WUNDT
1879
founded modern psych
opened a lab
●● uncertainty principle? what are people called who believe this?
Answer: the idea by Heisenberg in 1927 - the behavior of subatomic
particles is uncertain, suggesting that all of the physical laws governing
the universe are based on uncertainty
THE VERY ACT OF OBSERVING AN ELECTRON INFLUENCES
ITS ACTIVITY - DOUBTS VALIDITY OF OBSERVATION
-- eg. indeterminism
KANT ALSO THINKS THAT PSYCH AS A SCIENCE CANNOT
EXIST
WHETHER WE CONSIDER PSYCH A SCIENCE DEPENDS ON
WHAT AREA WE FOCUS ON
just because something is not scientific does not diminish its value
,●● free will and determinism?
Answer: FREE WILL IS CONTRARY TO THE ASSUMPTION OF
DETERMINISM
^^ PSYCHOLOGISTS who believe this are NONSCIENTIFIC
^NONDETERMINISM
INDIVIDUAL FREELY CHOOSES COURSES OF ACTION -- they are
responsible for their action
●● hard determinism?
Answer: causes of human behaviour are thought to function in an
AUTOMATIC, MECHANISTIC MANNER, AND THUS - PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY IS DEEMED MEANINGLESS
●● soft determinism?
Answer: cognitive processes such as intentions, motives, beliefs, and
values intervene between experience and behavior
BETWEEN HARD DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
●● 2) Explain the concept of mechanism. How did mechanism come to
be applied to human beings (up to and including Descartes)?
Answer: TECHNOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
CLOCKS!!!! (and automata)
-- changed social norms, routinized people
-- time is NOT fluid now...what else
, can be broken up? (1657ish)
-- we mechanized time AND ourselves - changed how we see ourselves
ORIGINATED IN PHYSICS (natural philosophy)
events in the physical world are predictable...humans can be too
THEN DESCARTES APPLIED THE CLOCK MACHINE
METAPHOR TO PEOPLE
●● WHAT IS MECHANISM?
Answer: view that all natural processes can be understood in term of
machines
-- assumes all processes can be explained by the laws of physics and
chemistry
eg. galileo proposed that matter is made up of discrete atoms that affect
one another by direct contact (corpuscular theory)
●● automata and mechanism?
Answer: eg. a little thing that looks like a woman playing piano
- MECHANICAL DEVICES BUILT TO IMITATE HUMAN
MOVEMENT
popular among aristocrats in the 17-19th centuries
"MODELS FOR THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE" - how philosophers
looked at it
●● people beefing w/ galileo?
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS BUNDLED REVIEW
●● when was psych founded and who found it?
Answer: WUNDT
1879
founded modern psych
opened a lab
●● uncertainty principle? what are people called who believe this?
Answer: the idea by Heisenberg in 1927 - the behavior of subatomic
particles is uncertain, suggesting that all of the physical laws governing
the universe are based on uncertainty
THE VERY ACT OF OBSERVING AN ELECTRON INFLUENCES
ITS ACTIVITY - DOUBTS VALIDITY OF OBSERVATION
-- eg. indeterminism
KANT ALSO THINKS THAT PSYCH AS A SCIENCE CANNOT
EXIST
WHETHER WE CONSIDER PSYCH A SCIENCE DEPENDS ON
WHAT AREA WE FOCUS ON
just because something is not scientific does not diminish its value
,●● free will and determinism?
Answer: FREE WILL IS CONTRARY TO THE ASSUMPTION OF
DETERMINISM
^^ PSYCHOLOGISTS who believe this are NONSCIENTIFIC
^NONDETERMINISM
INDIVIDUAL FREELY CHOOSES COURSES OF ACTION -- they are
responsible for their action
●● hard determinism?
Answer: causes of human behaviour are thought to function in an
AUTOMATIC, MECHANISTIC MANNER, AND THUS - PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY IS DEEMED MEANINGLESS
●● soft determinism?
Answer: cognitive processes such as intentions, motives, beliefs, and
values intervene between experience and behavior
BETWEEN HARD DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
●● 2) Explain the concept of mechanism. How did mechanism come to
be applied to human beings (up to and including Descartes)?
Answer: TECHNOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
CLOCKS!!!! (and automata)
-- changed social norms, routinized people
-- time is NOT fluid now...what else
, can be broken up? (1657ish)
-- we mechanized time AND ourselves - changed how we see ourselves
ORIGINATED IN PHYSICS (natural philosophy)
events in the physical world are predictable...humans can be too
THEN DESCARTES APPLIED THE CLOCK MACHINE
METAPHOR TO PEOPLE
●● WHAT IS MECHANISM?
Answer: view that all natural processes can be understood in term of
machines
-- assumes all processes can be explained by the laws of physics and
chemistry
eg. galileo proposed that matter is made up of discrete atoms that affect
one another by direct contact (corpuscular theory)
●● automata and mechanism?
Answer: eg. a little thing that looks like a woman playing piano
- MECHANICAL DEVICES BUILT TO IMITATE HUMAN
MOVEMENT
popular among aristocrats in the 17-19th centuries
"MODELS FOR THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE" - how philosophers
looked at it
●● people beefing w/ galileo?
