Chapter 1 Questions

Topic:
1. FMRI stands for funcrtional magnetic resonance imaging. Its a method of scanning the brain for activity. It is an important tool because it allows the detection of what parts of the brain are activated.
2. Emperical means a well conducted research to observe or examine how things work. Psychology is empirical because in order to understand how the mind works psychologist must perform studies. Being systematic. What we're able to know through our senses.
3. An example of an adaptive value of the mind would be the ability to evolve or better the skills of the mind in order to increase survival. Such as men being stronger than women in order to protect the offspring to ensure the passing of DNA into future generations.
4. Psychology became a dicipline roughly around 18th through the 3rd centures BCE. The main founders were Greeks and Chinese.
5. Two perfessions that make use of psychology would be for example care givers, they must know how individuals think, react, function. Advisers as well mush understand how individuals atitudes are changed or enhanced.

Questions:
1. Psychological science is the study of the mind and brain. Mind being the mental activity of the brain . How we percieve things in the world around us. For example how we reacdt or experience our sense of smell, touch, sight, taste, hear. The brain being how we are able to experience these sensations through nerves, cells, neurons, of the brain.
2. The mind and the brain are related in the way that the mind is what we experience, our senses our thoughts  and ideas. The brain is related to our mind in that it is the machinery of sorts. Our brain works to produce the sensations that we experience. Rene Decartes introduced the idea of dualism. the mind is a product of the brain action.
3. The levels of analysis are Biological, how the physical body contributes to the mind and human behaviors, Individual analysis level involves individual differences of personality, character, how people see dthe world around them. Social level deals with how people interact and socialize with eachother and influence ones behaviors. Cultural level being the different cultures behaviors of the people and the beliefs and values of individual groups in society. Different points of view from which to look at psychology.
4. Womens contributions to psychology were very underminded. Men had trouble accepting the equality of women knowledge of psychology to theirs. In the 19th century women were not allowed equal educatrion as men. since then we have had the 1st women set up psychology laboratory. and The first women president of the American Psychological Association in 1905, Mary Calkins. Since then women have been allowed equal educational oportunities and success in the psychological field of study. Margaret Washburn.
5. Critical thinking is a systematic way of evaluating information and using it to reach a conclusion of sorts. Thinking with the goal of reaching some kind of conclusion for example while making a decision or solving a problem. You can improve you critical thinking skills by applying them to your every day routine and learning to use them in the class room or work place.