PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Constructionism, Jaywalking, Normative Science

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ron Sheese

Document Summary

Social construction of gender; the normative prescriptions of masculinity and femininity: historical and cultural specificity. Moghaddam"s themes, issues in psychology: metapsychology, causal science and normative science are two different ways that psychologists approach the study of phenomena. Social construction is more likely to use qualitative rather than quantitative research: social construction is more likely to use a cultural orientation rather than biological reductionism. Introspection, psychoanalysis, behaviourism: meaning systems belief, desire, intention, cognitive processing, associative thinking, cell assemblies, models of intelligence (cattell, gardner, sternberg, artificial intelligence, an aspirational self, identity. Importance of neurological disorders: how do different parts of the brain control different aspects of human function, e. g. Feelings give us the capacity to intervene: the biological basis of human flourishing and the sacred. Looking for spinoza (agency and aspiration: much of the work that damasio does is very deterministic and mechanistic; where is the agency, conatus will to live. "the innate and automated equipment of life governance" (p. 30)