PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Dissonance, Self-Actualization, Oedipus Complex

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 235
• Professor: Christopher Bowie

Document Summary

Cutting edge thinkers of the time thought differently. Hippocrates (460-377bc: somatogensis=physical cause, psychogenesis, psychological disorders had a physical cause - a disease in the brain. Mentioned hereditary/genetics = something was being passed on. Imbalance of humors: phlegm, black bile, blood, yellow bile: lethargy, depression, mania, aggression. Personality typing: phlegmatic personality (ie. too much of a certain phlegm, melancholy, snaguine (happy, cheerful, bilious/choleric (hot tempered) Plato: psychogenesis = psychological cause, abnormal behaviour results from social-cultural influences and learning. They learn from their parents, we can re-teach them how to view the world through rational discussion: treatment is to re-educate through rational discussion. Importance of fantasies and dreams: precursor to psychoanalysis and cognitive science. Supernatural theories dominate: prior to 11thc, physical illness or trauma. Treatment = exorcism -> pra(cid:455)er, (cid:449)a(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)ross, star(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, et(cid:272) . 19th century: syphilis (used to believe it was a madness-mental disease, until germ theory)