PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Nature, Moral Treatment, Tabula Rasa

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michelle Hilscher

Document Summary

Three psyches: reason ideal, immortal and divine. First proposed by naturalist/formalist whom separated the intellectual and sensual world. It is not organic/bodily: passion motivation, courage, place for complex emotion. Happen when we engage in interaction: appetite sensual desire, sex, more basic emotion that prompt us to look after our body and fulfill our needs. *passion and appetite are the source of emotion and are given moral treatment. *sensible vs. intelligible distinction is maintained (formalist/naturalist): nutritive: found in plants. Most basic, fundamental functions reproduction, growth, self maintenance through nutrition: sensitive: found in animals, more complex. Perform automatic form of memory (recognition of familiarity): rational: in human. Can accomplish specific complex abstract thinking, think, weighs decision and act upon logic, recollection (effortful specific search of memory). *the three psyches are listed in increasing complexity by nature. Animal vs. human distinction: emotion in sensitive (both human and animal has it), reason and emotion in rational (only in human), emotion is unchecked in animal.