PSYC 312 Lecture Notes - Freud'S Seduction Theory, Morphine, Anima Animus
Document Summary
Industrial revolution beginning, science reliant (machines), less church dogma (less fear) Explorers lots of variety of animals were encountered, fossils (that revealed the origin or man), Galapagos islands, similarity to humans (physically and psychologically), continuity. Malthus (1798) suggested these things first (survival of the fittest; those that cant match the environment die) to darwin and wallace (wallace attempted to publish the same information as darwin) Survival of fittest adapt to environment to live (darwin didn"t coin that term, spencer coined it) Variation, individuality can be passed on through generations or can be changed by the environment. Lead to: animal/comparative psych, methodology (from other fields came into play in order to explain what was taking place; they all became important to explaining ourselves), individual differences, measure, consider; psychology became multifaceted. George john romanes: systemized study of animals looked at behaviour of all types of animals. Comparative: animal intelligence similar to human; he wanted to make a hierarchy of intelligence.
