PSC 1 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Memory, Cerebral Cortex, Thalamus
PSC 1
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course, Freud vs. Science
Incidence and prevalence of major mental disorders:
• 20% of US population is affected by a metal disorder any given year.
• Incidence: who has the disease at the given moment
• Prevalence: in the lifetime of an individual who is going to get the disease
• Focus is on reducing human suffering, but then also comes financial costs
o cost of mental health services in US is more than $300 billion/year.
o Additional of $193 billion in lost productivity
• Co-morbid: two or more things going wrong at the same time, medical condition that exits
with another
• Prevalence of mental disorders: 1 out 2 people will suffer from a mental condition at
some point in time.
Clinical psychology:
• A lot of doctors just practicing from their intuition
o Church based consulting service, made the woman believe her whole family was
possessed by Satan.
o Late 80s Houston, satanic ritual cults gained attraction, two MDs believed this. Had
the woman go under "memory" therapy and with power of suggestion made her
believe that her whole family was cannibalistic.
Self-esteem:
• Self-esteem is "how much a person likes, accepts, and respects himself overall as a
person".
o Google for self-esteem: 62.9 million hits
o 20,000 books about self esteem
• "self-esteem is located on the upper back of the skull, at an angle approx. 45 degrees
drawn from the aural conduct" - P. Van den Bosche, 1998
Sigmund Freud:
• In terms of his theories in present day, very less are used in practice
• But had great influence on people and psychology in 1800s and early 1900s.
• Psychoanalytic theory: ambitious attempt to describe the human mind, why people are
who they are
o Mind is not an unitary instrument
o Interaction of different parts of the mind produced human thought and behavior
o divisions of the mind:
• Conscious:
▪ all the things we are aware of perceiving
• Unconscious
▪ All the real action takes place
▪ Out of our awareness
▪ May have impact on conscious but most action is happening out of sight
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o Divisions of the Unconscious:
• Superego
▪ The knower of the rules
▪ Like the conscience
▪ Source of repressive force, keeps us in control
• Ego
▪ Core self, who we are fundamentally as humans
▪ Referee, decider, what behavior is appropriate in what occasion
▪ Control structure
• Id (libido)
▪ Repository of sex drives
▪ Hedonistic
• All thoughts and behavior reflect actions of 3 unconscious divisions
• Iceberg analogy is used for describing the workings of unconscious
o Freud was trying to explain the workings of our mind using a simple model
o Psychodynamic theory functioned as the grand unifying theory that explains theories
of:
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Document Summary
Lecture 1: introduction to the course, freud vs. science. Clinical psychology: a lot of doctors just practicing from their intuition, church based consulting service, made the woman believe her whole family was possessed by satan, late 80s houston, satanic ritual cults gained attraction, two mds believed this. Had the woman go under "memory" therapy and with power of suggestion made her believe that her whole family was cannibalistic. Self-esteem: self-esteem is "how much a person likes, accepts, and respects himself overall as a person", google for self-esteem: 62. 9 million hits, 20,000 books about self esteem. "self-esteem is located on the upper back of the skull, at an angle approx. 45 degrees drawn from the aural conduct" - p. van den bosche, 1998. Like the conscience: ego, core self, who we are fundamentally as humans, referee, decider, what behavior is appropriate in what occasion, control structure.
