PSYC 210 Chapter 6: PDF PSYC 210 Notes - Ch. 6
2 Dec 2016
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Psychology 210 notes - chapter 6. 1 - the roots of psychoanalysis. Close association between various memory images were established by repeated experience. Thinking of one attribute of an object immediately gives rise to the whole, integrated concept. Sensory-motor impressions in the brain act together as a functional unit, & communicate their collective activation to speech centres. Charcot"s theories: charcot"s bell diagram, stress & psychopathology - verbal suggestion: our language, words & ideas have the power to exert potent effect on the body. Normally, our thoughts allow us to act as usual. Theodor meynert"s theory: nervous functioning (including the function of the brain) could be reduced to re exive internal processes. Mental events are the result of these re exive neural pathways & could never themselves be the direct cause of behaviour: the brain was divided into a 2-tiered, higher & lower level cortical functions: Cortex (higher): learned associations between stimuli & responses.
