PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Humanistic Psychology, Carl Linnaeus
5 Jun 2018
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Lecture 12: Classification Systems
Carl Linnaeus: Taxonomic System
Hierarchal system of classification, starting with 3 kingdoms: plant, animal, and mineral;
mineral has since been abandoned.
• also recognized four races: red, yellow, black, white
• fifth category of abnormal humans was added later
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is good when he is in the natural state, and is corrupted by civilization.
He held that all religions are equally good, a view opposed by clergy of all faiths at the time.
• proposed that man in his natural state was good conflicted with the relgious concept of
original sin
What separates us from other animals is:
• freedom from captivity to our basic drives
• perfectibility which enables us to learn, including learning how to satisfy our other drives
The combination of these attributes enables us to be rational and moral, but also opens the
door to corrupting influences. Rosseau's thinking had a great influence on Kant.
Mendeleev structured the periodic table and won a nobel prize for it.
• an example of discovering order in nature and using it to correctly predict correctly the
distance and properties of something not yet discovered.
Maslow + Classification
• along with Carl Rodgers, a humanistic psychologist, regarded by some as the first humanist
• developed the hierarchy of needs
• physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs, self actualization
• not cross-culturally valid
DSM
• Previously, the various systems for categorizing mental disorders have differed with
respect to whether their principal objective was for us win clinical, research, or
administrative settings.
• what are the criteria we should use to determine whether a classification system is both
useful and valid?
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Document Summary
Hierarchal system of classification, starting with 3 kingdoms: plant, animal, and mineral; mineral has since been abandoned: also recognized four races: red, yellow, black, white, fifth category of abnormal humans was added later. Man is good when he is in the natural state, and is corrupted by civilization. He held that all religions are equally good, a view opposed by clergy of all faiths at the time: proposed that man in his natural state was good conflicted with the relgious concept of original sin. What separates us from other animals is: freedom from captivity to our basic drives, perfectibility which enables us to learn, including learning how to satisfy our other drives. The combination of these attributes enables us to be rational and moral, but also opens the door to corrupting influences. Rosseau"s thinking had a great influence on kant.
