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Animal magnetism
Redistributing the animal magnetism in the body
He was and technique was popular
Power of suggestion |
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Love neurosis and hysteria
Neurosis was biological and genetic
Hypnotize people to find out what was causing the paralysis/neurosis |
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| (anxiety disorders) symptoms |
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| physical symptoms, with no biological cause |
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Studied under Charcot, also a physician
Freud worked for him
Neurosis was biological and genetic, but the causes of hysteria were due to:
Repressed memories
The subconscious
Dissociative experiences |
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Disruption of the integration of the persons psychological functioning
Part of your personality was splitting off from the rest of it, causing the syptoms
Because repressed memories |
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Freud studied physiology under Brucke
Helmholtz-ism: mechanist everything could be reduced to a physical activity |
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Gestalt Psychology
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The principle of totality
The principle of psychophysical isomorphism
The principle of Pragnanz |
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| The principle of psychophysical isomorphism |
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Direction correlation between the mind and the body
Mental activity and brain activity are the same |
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| The principle of Pragnanz |
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You try to simplify the world into units we can understand
The mind self organizes into the simplest way
force fields |
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Extended gestalt principles to psychology, like motivation and personality, social psych
life space
subjective reality
The Zeigarnik effect
theory of conflict
group dynamics |
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Harmful behavior
Unrealistic thoughts
Inappropriate behaviors |
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Categorized mental illness
Student of Wundt |
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| father of clinical psychology |
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Viennese Psychoanaytic Society
Individual psychology: departure from Freud, tired of the sex
We had goals in life which determined our behavior
Social interests Our life is based on the common good
Ideas:
Goal setting:
Inferiority complex: we are born inferior, and have to overcome inferior situations
Turning weakness into a strength |
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Disagreement with Freud
Analytic psychology
Ego: our consciousness
Collective unconscious: psychic pathways?
Personal unconscious: Archetypes
Persona: what I change for the public |
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| Humanistic Psychology influences |
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Romanticism: Roussaeu and What makes us human?
Existentialism: Kierkegard
Phenomenology: Husserl |
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Also called, third-force psychology
Study normal people too!
Focus on the uniqueness of being human |
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To exist is to change
As human we exist in the physical world and things happens, and then we grow from change
Since we are going to change, humans can dictate how change, we have free will
Humans choose the nature of their own existence
Authenticity vs. inauthenticity
Throwness
Nazi |
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| Authenticity vs. inauthenticity |
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| If you choose to not accept that you will die, you lose the sense of urgency, you are inauthentic. Live a traditional lifestyle, let lives happen to them |
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The Human Dilemma: we are both objects and subjects of experience; Can’t get at it with empirical tools
Normal and neurotic anxiety: We all have some degree of anxiety in our lives; Neurotic anxiety fear the free well because they are overwhelmed
The importance of Myth:Narrative therapy;The myth you hold about yourself; Get rid of the negative myths
Human Science: We can’t quantify subjective experience |
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Very pragmatic approach: Everything is built of constructs to view the world to help understand what’s going on, constructing what you see
Psychological problems are a matter of how individuals view/interpret things
Constructive Alternativism: Get rid of bad constructs and add better ones
Fixed-Role Therapy: Replacing constructs through role playing; Taking on the more adaptive role |
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| Antecedents of Cognitive Psychology |
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verbal learning
human performance
computer science |
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| laws of how the mind works |
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Empiricism
Laboratory tradition
Nomothetic goals |
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discipline within applied math, involves figuring out how much data can be stored on a specific medium
Channel Capacity
Computers |
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Limits of attention
Information theory |
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| limits of amount of information people could process, performance suffers when limits are reached |
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The Magical number 7
Channel capacity |
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Cognitive Psychology
First book |
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