PS101 Lecture Notes - Schizophrenia, Takers, Psychoanalysis
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Psychology: how our physical, mental states and external environment affects our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Psychology (empirical) vs. pseudoscience (unsupported popular opinion, psychobabble aka scientific sounding language) Critical thinking: ask questions and examine evidence. Or having a psychotic break: analyze assumptions/biases, example: rinse and repeat would you just fall into the marketing trap, don"t oversimplify, science is interested in knowing about groups as a whole, not the individuals. Pre-modern (phrenology): the study of head bumps and how they affected your personality, but it was pseudoscience so it didn"t last long. Structuralism (introspection): how conscious experience is broken down into its basic elements. Methodology example: take someone into the lab and ask him or her to be introspective about eating something - train the person to break things down into every sense. The start of salivating every detail was important, even the smallest. Criticism: there were too many various opinions, therefore making it too subjective to be science.
