PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Zeitgeist
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Science has always been contextualized in a larger set of societal/historical/political/ideological/economic processes. Theological/religious barriers impede the process of physiological sciences and therefore, psychology. Doctrines regarding human exemptionalism, therefore, impossible to learn about human functioning through animal studies. Post enlightenment gave the rise of the supposed rational, self-interested human, deep divide between cognition and emotion, emphasis on the individual as the unit of analysis. Post biological revolution and neuroscience - remerging of cognition and emotion, emphasis on interdependence between the individual and the group. Much of the rest of the history of psychology can be described as a struggle to answer questions that emerge from mind-body dualism. However, what set humans apart from animals was the mind, which was non-physical but able to interact with the body. This spitting of the mind and body still plagues us. Studied medicine, and then went through major emotional crisis - determinism vs. free will.
