PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Cognitive Therapy, Existentialism
Psychology Chapter 2
Psych Society
• Meet the prof night September 24
Midterm
- stats appendix b
- history of psych
Read Chapter one and add to notes
• Cognitive therapy provides the same outcome as drugs but the therapy takes
longer
• The symptom is the problem
• Radical Behaviorisms is a thing of the past
Gasdtalt (German School)
• Configuration
• Perception and vision = huge difference
o We generally see patterns in terms of our perception
o The brain tries to see patterns when stimuli are reduced
o Activist synthesis random burst to keep brain alive – brain
desperately tried to make sense of your dreams
• REM sleep immobilized and brain is very active and brain attempts to make
sensible narrative out of these Radom bursts
• Near death experiences – brain tries to make sense of limited stimuli
• We inherently need to organize life into patterns that makes sense
• If we don’t see a pattern we perceive a pattern
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• Whole is greater – house can be built with bricks a home with love
• Closure is an important drive – discuss the end of a relationship
• Pattern of completeness that we feel comfortable with
Sigmund Freud
• Formal school of pyscho analysis
• Children fantasize about sexual relations
• Freud didn’t have courage to publish many truths
• No school of psychology has been embedded in our modern society as
Freudian
• Formal school of psychology as well as a treatment
• Psychoanalysis means most of our behaviors are unconscious – libido
measure of sexual energy
• Almost everything we do we are not conscious off and it usualy reflects our
seucal energies
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