PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Horoscope, Victorian Era, Gestalt Psychology
PSYA01 – Lecture 3: Science & Therapy; Psychologies Recent Past
Shift from structuralism to functionalism
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
- Product of Victorian Era – very proper, formal aggression. Sex was never a topic of discussion.
Society repressed them which caused conflicts for psychological issues.
- He was provocative in an interesting way, good writer, gained popularity and redefined
psychology. (Clinical program for psych.)
o Huas are poered asi, atural dries e.g. huger, thirst…et.
- Scientifically-minded psychologists hate him b/c they find him interesting but useless
o Lack of testable theories – likes theories that make concrete results
o Science tries to confirm theories, not PROVE them.
- Its all aout the lak of testale theories – his data is like horoscopes. E.g. how accurate is it?
Reading the exact same horoscope.
o Freudian theories provided a theory for any result (so extremely complicated and
complex) and cannot be tested
o Feel Better – therap as helpful. Wast scientific unlike NOW.
European Reaction
- Gestalt Psychology (the whole is more than the sum of its parts)
Trying to understand the laws underlying our amazing ability to acquire and maintain stable
percepts in a noisy world
o Perception process
- Huaisti Psholog
Born largely as a direct counter-respose to Freuds, fousig o the positive aspects of
huait the est of us. Didt like Freud paitig huas drie aggressio ad se.
North American Reaction
- After Darwin, infatuated with genetics – focusing more on nature aspects from ature s
urture .
o Eugenics – hats etter; seletiel reedig for the est result for the et geeratio.
o ADOLF HITLER: loved eugenics, took to extreme, kill all the bad genes keep good ones.
- Behaviorism – Shued all disussio of a pshologial oept that ouldt e diretl ad
ojetiel easured ad/or aipulated NO osiousess, attetio, eor, pereptio…
etc). How environment shapes human behavior.
- Psychology became study of the association b/w stimuli (any object/situation) and responses
(how an organism behaved.
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