101184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phineas Gage, Mental Event, Classical Conditioning
30 Aug 2018
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Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Learning outcomes: history of psychology (lens of different perspectives, course content, assessments. Freud was initially a physician in the late 19th century and founded psychoanalytic psychology. For e. g. irrational guilt: paralysed with fear. The behaviourist perspective: the environment shaping behaviour through reinforcement. The humanistic perspective: psychodynamic, behaviour is largely the result of unconscious processes, motivation and early experiences, behaviourism, behaviour is learned and selected by its environmental consequences, both balanced by perspectives of the time. Focusses on the cognitive theory behind input, processes and behaviour. Input (in the environment) -> meditational process (mental event) -> output (behaviour) The sociocultural perspective: responds to the concept of culture and cultural practices, the socio part of this perspective, presence of others can man, actual presence. Imagined presence (the social psychological approach overlaps with other perspectives): the cultural part of this perspective, can be influenced by:
