PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Existentialism, Behaviorism
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The symptom is the problem: sub-symptoms will occur. Perception and vision are different: see patterns generally (brain tries to find patterns, dreams (brain tries to understand from little information provided) Life is patterns and we perceive patterns. The whole is greater than the sums of its parts (house/home: can"t reduce people they are whole creatures. Closure is an important drive (there is an ending) Treatment program as well as a school. Except the absorb life and live it fully. Characterized by: behaviour contains spontaneous, unique, internal locus of control (responsible for success = no breaks) Less drugs, accidents, have better grades: existentialism. Naturalistic observation (unobtrusive/nonreactive: not intervening, taking notes, not allowed to talk to them, weakness: can"t find casual factors. Case study (essential: in-depth of a person, talk to everyone around one individual, get as much info as possible to find drive, not homothetic can"t declare a generalization/laws. Correlation studies: r = relationship among variables, +1. 00/-1. 00 is a perfect correlation.
