ASTRON 2B03 Chapter 19: Ch. 19 - Summary and Themes.pdf
14 Oct 2014
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Personality traits that make every individual psychologically unique. Biological approach the architecture and function of the nerouvs system. Heritability and evolutionary history of behavioural patterns. The complicated effects of motivations and conflicts we aren"t even aware of. Way this awareness might give us free will and the ability to choose how we see the world. Leads to an appreciation of the way cultural differences creates diverse construals of reality. Consciousnss, free will and individual and cultural construals of reality. How behaviour is a function of its situation change. Basic mental processes relevant to perception, memory, motivation, emotion and . Cluster of memories and attitudes called the self: they are different answers to different questions, order of approaches in textbooks. Approaches branch off from, react to and interact with each other. No single approach accounts for everything: most comprehensive theory is freud"s. Still doesn"t address conscious experience, learning from experience or free will: physics envy.
