PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Gordon Allport, John Locke, Juan Luis Vives
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Kurt lewin stressed the interaction of person and environment. Aristotelian approach separate rules for different kinds of motion. eg earth and space. Eg hangs the iq label around your neck. these qualities are essesntial to you. Whereby a person object of event is seen to have a central quality inside of it that defines it. And there is no room to change that. Purpose is built into the system teleology. Galilean mode of thinking more dynamic the persons behavior will be shaped by the qualities they have and the situations they are in. The situation is fundamental in understanding emotional events. Lewin - if we want to study something in the lab, the lab must be a recreation of the world out there. The laboratory must be a microcosm of the real world. Durkheim anomic suicide the person feels totally isolated with their world. Ludovicus vives passiones very intense, overwhelming. Discursive space the domain in which people talk.
