PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karen Horney, Baby Talk, Participant Observation
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Parataxic distortion dependent on particular experience, idiosyncratic to you and the people you"ve been close to. Integrative tendencies born with capability for empathy. Parataxic distortion not all together conscious, highly idiosyncratic. Role of past in present (infantile, psychosexual conflict. What problem in early childhood do i need to have an epiphany about: affecting present behavior. All psychodynamic people focused on insight of some kind and how it may allow you to change. Implementing actual behavioral, emotional, cognitive, etc. change. Created 2 completely different approaches to learning. Have to begin with biological drive of some kind. He began w/ depravation of food: hunger. If you"re presented w/ unconditioned stimulus (anything that is food: going to salivate, unconditioned stimulus will produce unconditioned response. Hear the ringtone, see the food salivation (repeat this: eventually the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus will generalize stimuli that are a bit different: generalization, tone can sound a little different, but evoke same response.