PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pirkei Avot, Unconscious Mind, Psychometrics

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Psychology, philosophy and physiology: psychology, philosophy, physiology. Anatomy, animal behaviour- uses the empirical method. What are the major perspectives: biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, humanistic. Freud, ruled for decades, first one to examine unconscious mind- our. Problem: ignored that humans are indeed desires, motives, sex is a drive. Ego defense mechanisms- denial, etc. , grandfather of psychotherapy- we can talk abot things to cure mental illness (more effective than pills for disorders- mental and physical) different and special habituating all over the world. Meaning of life is to find the purpose- live a genuine life, not materialistic. we make most of it up and we cannot even tell. Memory is biased at perception, retrieval, presentation etc. and procreation. Reflexes are pre-programmed (afraid of heights because our ancestors passed these genes down) (carbs because they only came around once a year in the past). Dreaming must dream- must be evolutionary- important to our survival: cognitive, evolutionary.