Discussion Question Week 1COLLAPSE
After reading the chapters, address the following questions:

  1. Describe the obstacles faced by women, Jews, and African Americans in pursuing careers in psychology, especially during the first half of the twentieth century?
  2. How did Descartes’s views on the mind-body issue differ from earlier views?
  3. How did Descartes explain the functioning and interaction of the human body and the human mind?  What is the role of the conarium?