PSYC 215 Lecture 23: PSYC 215 Lecture 23

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Adam Etinson

Document Summary

Develop deep friendship and feel deep loyalties to the person. Paintings portraying connection to nature, standing on top of nature, human emotion, etc. Music and theater; uplifting music that try to stir up passion and emotion, deep feelings. Soap opera; theme songs portraying love and passion. One has a character or nature, with a deep inner presence, that one can come to know through introspection. Change in people"s way of thinking after development of science. Science has the power to solve problems through observation and reasoning. Boil down aesthetics down to basic principles of light, color, and shape. Architecture: designing for function; "what would this building be used for?" (contrast to romantic view of architecture); beautiful in the modernist way. Modern heroes: sherlock holmes using observation and reason to solve problems. People (including oneself) can be understood in terms of beliefs, attitudes, personality traits, life history.