PSYCH 3M03 Chapter 3: PSYCH3M03.pdf
9 Apr 2013
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Great deal of mythologies built up from info passed down by word of mouth or books. What you find in every culture that the prevailing ideas were animistic ( we have spirits in our bodies) People saw themselves as spirit in the body <<< not a scientific idea b/c we have zero evidence about it<< but that idea lingers in our culture and in other cultures. It was also seen that death was the spirit leaving body<<< but no scientific evidence at all! For a long time abnormal behaviour was attributed to possession of evil spirits << laugh at it but idea still lingers in many traditions. When ppl didn"t attribute people essence to spirit, they were often attributed to the wrong parts of physiology. People often thought that : thought and emotion was in the heart<<< and it still lingers in the modern language.
