PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oedipus Complex, Conscientiousness, Peripheral Nervous System

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Two primary motives drive our behaviour: sex and aggression. Carl adler totally different ideas from freud. Believed that people wanted to be powerful. (self-esteem) Major assumptions of the psychiatric tradition: cannot rely on what people say or do to indicate what kind of problems they are experiencing because everything is thought to be unconscious. They emphasis is not on what people tell you, but on the interpretation of what was said: emphasis is on understanding each individual person comprehensively. Study on person at a time and knowing all the details about that person: the best approach is a clinical approach. Sir francis galton what makes someone fit, superior, genius. Spearman factor analysis: way of figuring out what goes together. Eattel & eysenek famous in the trait tradition. Binet figure out how to actually perform an intelligence test. Major assumptions of the testing tradition: psychology is primarily a product of biology.