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| believe all behavior is caused |
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| human behavior is determined but that the causes of behavior can not be accurately measured |
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| some psychologists completely reject science as a way of studying humans |
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| Some psychologists attempt to explain everything in physical terms; for them, even so-called mental events are ultimately explained by the laws of physics of chemistry |
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| attempt to explain everything in one type of reality-matter |
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attempt to explain everything in terms of consciousness
-physical world consists of ideas |
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| accept the existence of both physical and mental events and assume that the two are governed by different principles |
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| claims that the mind and body interact, mind influences the body, body influences the mind |
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belives that mental operations or principles must be employed before knowledge can be attained
emphasize the importance of logical, systematic, and intelligent thought processes |
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| true causes of behavior are unconscious and as such cannot be pondered rationally |
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maintains that the source of all knowledge is sensory observation
true knowledge, therefore, can be derived from or validated only by sensory experience |
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| emphasizes the role of inheritance |
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life can never be completely reduced to material things and mechanical laws
living things contain a vital force that does not exist in inanimate objects |
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| what we experience mentally is exactly the same as what is present physically |
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everything in nature is alive- particularly things that move
-human attributes |
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projection of human attributes on nature
Gods of the sky, earth, water, etc. |
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| Anthropomorphic Polytheism |
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| Gods cause events in life- gods have human attributes |
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