PSYCH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dream Interpretation, Psychopathology, Group Dynamics
3 Feb 2020
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Mind: mental states and thoughts and feelings and motives. Brain: enables mind, the mind is what the brain does . Study of structure of consciousness and conscious experience: break down conscious experiences into basic elements, like chem. Relied on introspection, required one to describe sensory elements of experience. Ex: must attend to inner experience, not knowledge of the object to avoid. Could say shines, hard around but bends easily, hard but soft when. Can say anything that reflects basic sensory properties of your experience. Argued that consciousness should be studied for its functions, not structure. Primary areas: social, practical, everyday higher order experience, evolutionary. Experience is not made up of finite components, but rather the whole of experience is something completely, indescribably different. Thought behavior was determined by unconscious drives, and affected heavily by childhood. Used dream analysis and free association to uncover unconscious desires and conflicts.
