PSY 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Explicit Knowledge, Developmental Science, Preconscious
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Generation and refinement of coherent models of a scientific problem. Explain the cause-effect associations among different elements that account for the phenomenon we are trying to understand. The pieces of these explanations can become hypotheses in empirical studies. A grand theory of personality and its development. Development of an intervention based on his theory - reduce human suffering. Late 19th and early 20th century vienna. Curious problems confronting freud and other neurologists. Conscious (now described as explicit knowledge, processes, memories, etc. ) Pre-conscious: not currently conscious but able to be brought into awareness. Unconscious (note that he never used the term subconscious ) Now described as implicit knowledge, processes, memories, etc. Unconscious material is a primary determinant of personality. Prominent role for sexual and aggressive impulses. Challenge: reconcile sexual urges and attractions with realities of social life. Each stage associated with its own mode of sexual gratification.
