PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wilhelm Dilthey, Scholasticism, Verstehen
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Objective: supposedly about the external public world but actually reflects internal learned conventions and standards. Subjective: supposedly about the internal private world but actually is projected onto the imagined world out there. Objective knowledge is not as objective as you think. Even when you take a photograph of the class, you are choosing to take it from a certain side, certain angle. You cannot have emotions without thoughts and vice versa. Mind and body are always together, feelings and thoughts are always together you cannot have one without the other. Every time you have an emotion, it"s cause you interpreted the situation a certain way. Bodily activity mechanisms of the mind. Adaptation and search for meaning table for exam ********* (behaviourists and cognitivists) Organic adaptation: lobster cutting hand off to run away. If you"re going to adapt, you better have strong stimulus. Emphasis (look at situation coming at you, focus on now and what"s coming.
