PSY100H1 Lecture 2: Psychology Lecture 2
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Insight 2: projection is due to unavoidable limitation and problem brains face in processing information (plethora, pollution, partiality and projection) Insight 3: every experience is ultimately pattern processing in your neural network because every experience is your brain solving information processing problems using the same machinery (constantly predicting and managing pattern to deal with the world. ) Insight 4: science fine tunes our brain by both extending its natural tendency to experiment and by challenging its projection of common sense experience. Insight 5: science is a complex multilevel process in which framework, theory, explanation, prediction and observation interact in a complex self-correcting, but not perfect, manner. It tries to provide integration between different level of mind, because possibly they interact with each other. Information processing/ computational: psychoanalysis, behaviourism, humanist/ existential, positive, evolutionary. In addition to the conscious/ unconscious division freud divided the psyche into three main functional systems: each system works according to different principles and motivations.
