PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Physis, Defence Mechanisms, Anaximander
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Midterm 25 questions: first half of textbook, lecture content. For the assignment: has to be relevant to psych. Three problems in psychology according to berlyne (1928-76): mind-body: Do they affect each other: 2. What part is nature and what part is nurture: 3. So technical that you lose the sense for social meaning. Lost in the micro details of methods: to a great extent, psychology can be viewed as the study of how the structure of mankind as an organism mediates our actions in and understanding of our world. Origin of the term psychology: psyche-psykhe (anc. Greek): stuff you breathe or blow: pneuma - to breathe or blow. Wolff, a student of leibniz, established the term psychology in titles of his two volumes: psychologia rationalis (1732, psychologia empirica (1734) Palaeolithic society: two brain hemispheres connected at the frontal cortex to allow for creativity, artistic expression, and tool invention, landscape of habit social landscape (clive gamble)
