PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychodynamics, Nomothetic, Motor Action F.C.
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This lecture is about symbolic value of life experiences (important lecture) Action model: arousal+cognition=emotion (coping, adaptation, appraising, choosing appropriate response) Reaction (emotional experience): what we think the situation is. In this reaction approach, peripheral is key point. You"re in a situation that means something to you and you have a high speed reaction to it. Positivism goes hand in hand with an objective approach in science. In language use, every word must have a single meaning specified by an operation or scientific definition. It is nomothetic or rule oriented and searches for general laws. We find the language of romanticism in myths and in everyday speech. Precise and narrow language cannot capture the complexities of psychology and personal life. Subjective reality: emotion cannot be reduced to formuli. For psychodynamic theorists, behaviours in everyday life can refer to many meanings at once.
