PSYC 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anorexia Nervosa, Emic And Etic, Wilhelm Wundt
5 Dec 2016
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A nasty little subject william james > not being able to give on speci c answer scienti c study of the mind, brain and behaviour brain: organ mind: far more complex, memory, emotion ect. Five main challenges: human behaviour is dif cult to predict because actions are multiply determined ex. violence (poverty? genetics?, psychological in uences are rarely independent ex. anorexia nervosa (anxiety) 3. individual differences among people cant generalize 100% (trying to go from unique to general: people in uence one another > reciprocal determinism, behaviour is shaped by culture > emic (insider) vs. etic (outsider) approaches. Theoretical perspectives in psychology: how can we explain behaviour, there are ve primary schools of thought that have shaped modern psychology (sfbcp, which one is correct: there is no one better than the other. Aim: identify the most fundamental elements of psychological experience > map of consciousness, which came from systematic observation (imageless thought)
