PSY 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Object Relations Theory, Karen Horney, Mary Ainsworth

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 352
• Professor: Lazarwicz

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Lecture outline #10: contemporary issues in psychoanalytic approaches. A contemporary view of the unconscious an example: blindsight: phenomenon in which blind people can (cid:498)see(cid:499) No conscious awareness of vision, but react to environment. 2 visual tracks: eyes thalamus occipital lobe (cid:523)(cid:498)mammalian(cid:499), conscious vision(cid:524, eyes brainstem (similar to fish, frogs, etc. ) More primitive system processing with little/no attention visual neglect: deficits in attention to (and perception of) half of visual field. Freudian definition of unconscious vs. today"s definition: today: (cid:498)implicit(cid:499) processes (cid:523)automatic, uncontrolled(cid:524) priming: tendency for recently-used words/ideas to come to mind easily and influence interpretation of new info. Perceptions of others: e. g. hot vs. cold beverage predicting opinion of interviewer. Social behaviors: e. g. rude vs. polite behavior. Dv: time to walk down hall after experiment subliminal sensation: sensory signal that is not registered by our conscious awareness (too quiet, too dim, etc. ) Potential examples: results: those primed with elderly words walked slower. Eat popcorn and drink coke at movie theater.