PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reductionism, The Foundations, The Emotions

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ronald Sheese

Document Summary

The environment naturally selects characteristics that will make us more likely to survive until reproductive age and reproduce. Therefore, these particular responses (emotions and feelings) have been selected to be. Feelings are evolutionary valuable because they serve as markers to take action. If you know that you have an injury, then you can attend to it. Having a sensor (emotions and feelings) that tells you to take care of this injury will make you more likely to survive. Otherwise, you could have an injury and ignore it and it could lead to infection, etc. Substance dualism is classic dualism: the body is made of physical stuff whereas the mind is mental stuff. Aspect dualism fits into damasio"s biological/materialist/reductionist view: the mind and body are both made of physical stuff. (but they are different things unlike previous pure reductionist views that would say there is no mind, only the physical body. )