PSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardiovascular Disease
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Major themes of psychology: nature v. nature. Born that way or environment raised in. Heredity (nature) v. experience (nurture: intelligence, income, cardiovascular disease. You can be born into a family that has a tendency for cardiovascular disease but the lifestyle you have can affect it: continuity v. discontinuity. When you grow you grow in spurts. You don"t one day" become an adult. One day you can walk when the day before you couldn"t: universal v. context-speci c development. Valid everywhere or only somewhere: how valid/true is your hypothesis and how ethically diverse is your chosen sample size. Didn"t have actual research groups: took notes from those he worked with. Psychosexual theory: id, ego, super ego, id-desires. Monday, january 9, 2017: super ego- rules, ego- the referee. Constant con ict between the two: erikson. Doesn"t agree with the sexual component of freud"s psychology: used to be friends with freud, argued over freud"s obsession" with sex.
