AP PSYCHOLOGY

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BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Known as the father of modern philosophy. He constructed the idea that the human body is like a mechanical object, that the environment is the stimuli that dictate actions. Conceptualize that human beings acquire an outside stimuli that exhibit action (reflex).
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Rene Descartes
B
Aristotle
C
Galen
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -René Descartes is often credited with being the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” This title is justified due both to his break with the traditional Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophy prevalent at his time and to his development and promotion of the new, mechanistic sciences.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern medicine because in his books, which are more than 70. He described in a scientific manner, many diseases and their treatment after detailed observation. He lived about 2400 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -Here’s how Descartes explains this phenomenon in his Meditation II . For Descartes, then, this is the essence of your self-you are a “thinking thing, ” a dynamic identity that engages in all of those mental operations we associate with being a human self.

Detailed explanation-4: -Descartes is often called The Father of Dualism, due to his proposing the theory of substance dualism, or Cartesian dualism. Dualism is a theory which entails the belief that the mind and the body are two completely separate substances.

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