PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Broca, Noble Savage, Visual Thinking

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Peter Lee

Document Summary

7804920065 (*dont worry about modules 4 and 5, only do modules 1-3 on info literacy) Deadlines for psych: feb 10, feb 24, march 9, march 30. Greek inscription know oneself - temple of delphi. Compare a person to a computer - it would have to record everything and record what is going on in the processing of that knowledge. Must know all the dynamic processes - feelings, emotional connotations. So what does it take to know oneself? . The challenges: lessons from tahit i, aveyron, rabaul. Darwin - origin of species - natural selection - continuity between us and other animal forms of life. We are connected to animals - what french said. To make psychology work you must have an understanding of underlying causes and effects. Kenneth parks - killed his parents - lawyer said he was sleepwalking, so was not acting on his own free will.