PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Apophenia, Libido, Toilet Training
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Anxiety: propels us to make meaning of our world. Personal meaning: helps us manage anxiety; religion, spirituality ad symbolism ar important sources of meaning. The experience of 2 or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. As events may be connected causally, they may also be by meaning. Con rmation bias: con rming beliefs based on our expectations. A byproduct of intelligence but sometimes we make mistakes. ex. Seeing faces in a light socket because based on evolution we pick up on faces as a mean of protecting ourselves. Problem 4: how can we best describe personality development. Freud argued that all people pass through a series of stages in personality development. At each of the rst three stages, young children must face and resolve speci c con icts. Each stages focuses on a method of sexual grati cation (satisfying libido)
