PSC 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Cerebral Cortex, Thalamus
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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.
