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Psychology (4)

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A study of one of the existential wonders: the psyche and the mind of the person capable of:
- initiating, controlling, and freely, consciously choosing the meaningful actions
- insightful introspection in the mental reality (thoughts, feelings, desires, selfhood)
- insightful orientation in the mental qualities of other people (empathy,
compassion)
- contemplating the transcendent dimensions of human existence.
!!BEYOND BEHAVIOR!!

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Idiographic approach/view of the human person

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Description and analysis of a unique, specific individual,
-> e.g. Lady Macbeth, Don Quixote or Ms. Anna O. (Freud’s anamnesis)
-> clinical psychologists
=> psychology as a CLINICAL PRACTICE

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Nomothetic approach/view of the human person

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Description and analysis of human beings in general,
-> e.g. Freudian description of people suffering from conversion hysteria.
-> typical for theorists, scientific generalizations about humans…
=> psychology as a DISCIPLINE OF SCIENCE

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The interpretations of history are prone to biases of: (5)

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(1) Assumed paradigm (a set of axioms accepted in a preferred theory)
(2) Ideological indoctrination, political correctness, conformism, auto-censorship
(3) Assumed dogma (a set of beliefs based on authority)
(4) False myths and irrational prejudices
(5) Presentism

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Dogmatic interpretation

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Based on authority, myth, social pressure, prejudices, beliefs, ideology, auto-censorship
-> Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.
(VS PARADIGMATIC: based on knowledge, axioms, preferences, preconceptions, expectations, theoretical preferences)

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Presentism def

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Bias, a tendency to interpret and judge past events or concepts from the point of view popular and accepted presently (here and now).

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Historicism def

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Way of viewing and interpreting past events and
concepts in their historical context (Zeitgeist & Ortgeist: then and there).
UNBIASED APPROACH

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Who or what makes historical facts, events or concepts happen? (5 approaches)

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(1) Zeitgeist/Ortgeist (Hegel!)
(2) Special person
(3) Cycles
(4) Random

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Zeitgeist def

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Spirit (mentality) of the TIMES: climate of opinion, mentality of the epoch

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Ortgeist def

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Spirit (mentality) of the PLACE, region, country, community

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Special person approach

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An extraordinary individual who makes history unique.

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Cyclical Repetitions approach

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Assumes that everything in history repeats itself: the political, economic, social, and artistic trends as well as the philosophical and scientific concepts reappear in a new form or under a new label.
-> War vs Peace, Poverty vs Richness…

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Randomness approach

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Political, social, artistic, and scientific events happen by chance: cannot be predicted. Nothing and nobody makes history, “history makes itself”.

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Why do we need the knowledge of history? (6)

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(1) To learn from the past and avoid repeating the same errors
(2) To respect our roots and protect the sense of belonging (identity)
(3) To understand the transient preliminary value of a theory or concept
(4) To avoid arrogance based on presentism
(5) To preserve a respectful attitude towards the ancestral views and traditions
(6) Clinical professionals collect the patient’s past to write and analyze the anamnesis

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Who wrote the term “psychology” for the first time?

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Christian monk from Split, Croatia, Marko Marulič (16th century)

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Explain the chronology of the word “psychology”

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(1) Christian monk from Split, Croatia, Marko Marulič (16th century).
(2) German humanist Johannes Thomas Freigius (16th c.)
(3) German humanist Rudolph Goclenius or Goeckel (16th c.)
(4) - The term “psychology” was replaced by “pneumology” in the 17th c.
(5) “Psychology” was re-introduced by Christian Wolff in 18th c.
(6) 1879!!!!! Wilhelm Wundt: psychology as an independent discipline of science
(7) John Watson tries to replace “psychology” with “behaviourism”
(8) Albert Bandura restores psychology as a science of mental processes

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The historical roots of psychological concepts (6)

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(1) Ancestral thoughts on mechanisms of action (anthropomorphism, animism, magic)
(2) Mythology
(3) Religion
(4) Philosophy
(5) Anthropology, archaeology
(6) Medical discoveries and neuroscience

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Basic axioms of science (3)

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(1) There is a real universe (ontology)
(2) The elements of the universe are lawfully and coherently interdependent (determinism)
(3) The universe is knowable and we can learn it (epistemology)

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Science is an endless process of… (4)

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(1) Collecting the data
(2) Investigating the relationships
(3) Formulating the conclusions: hypotheses & models
(4) Verifying and modifying them

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Classic scientific axioms assume harmony, consistency & predictability as one of science’s objectives. Yet, such thinkers reject that explanation. WHO?

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Isaac Newton, August Compte

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Newton’s pov on science’s objective

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Newton said it was not necessary to explain. Sufficient when scientists provide measurable coincidences of two measurable facts.
-> Scientific laws as mathematical summaries of observations

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August Compte’s pov on objectives of science

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Methodological positivism: focus on measurable facts and avoid the temptation to formulate a causal explanation.

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Axiom def

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Something that doesn’t require proof

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To what mathematical function can we compare scientific discoveries to?

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Asymptotic curve: never-ending process of improving our understanding of the universe.

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Objectives of scientific inquiry (4)

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Describe, Predict, Control, and (perhaps?) Explain.

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The observational or correlational statements are not about the cause, but only _______.

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coincidences

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A single “cause” or many causes? - What would Aristotle say?

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Multifactorial approach. 4 types of causes: material & formal (antecedent conditions), efficient (immediate), and final (teleological)

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Aristotle: Material cause

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A type of material -> Domino is produced in such a way that all elements are from the same material → domino effect doesn’t work if diff materials.

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Aristotle - Formal cause

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The shape of its pieces

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Aristotle - Efficient cause

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An impact of a piece onto another - Somebody has to start pushing the first piece of domino.
(why?)

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Aristotle - Final case

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A purpose, an intention

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A single “cause” or many causes? Multifactorial approach in psychology

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R as a single reaction depending on
many cofactors: S (stimulus), A (antecedent experience), V (visceroception), P (personality)
&
B as a behavioural style depending on personality traits

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What questions does psychology share with philosophy? (3)

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(1) Ontological questions: What does exist? Is the soul, psyche, and mind real?
(2) Epistemological questions: How do we know, and learn an object of cognition?
(3) Ethical questions: How should we behave to be happy, respected and loved?

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Epistemology etymology

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From the Greek episteme (”to know, to comprehend”)

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Epistemology def

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Sources of knowledge. How do we know what’s real? What are the tools and methods of examining reality & knowing it?

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Ontology def

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Attempt to understand the essence of the perceived world of objects.
What is real and what’s an illusion? What is the nature of reality?

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Ontology etymology

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Greek ὄντος ontos = of being

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Ontological monism def

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There’s only one reality, whether spiritual or material.

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Ethics def

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Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

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Ontological monism - materialism

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Only material world is real

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Ontological pluralism - Dualism (Theory of Interactionism)

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Pointed at the pituitary gland in the brain as a spot where the physical human body mutually communicates (interacts) with the soul (Descartes).

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Ontological monism - Idealism

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Only spiritual world is real. The essence of reality is purely spiritual, and the sensory impressions of so-called material reality are merely illusions.

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Ontological monism - Double aspectism

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Material = spiritual (Spinoza) - the reality is BOTH, just depends on what aspect you consider

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Ontological pluralism def

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Assume more than one reality and treat them equally as true and worth studying it.

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Ontological pluralism - Dualism

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Cartesian dualism (Rene Descartes): Both spiritual and material reality have the same ontological status. Both are equally real.

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Ontological pluralism - Emergentism

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(Sperry-split brain research): Material reality + notion of a newly emerging configurational properties of the material components that acquire new meaningful existence. !New thing emerges from combination!
-> Sodium + Chloride (very toxic substances) = Table salt
-> Gestalt psych: Combining 2 elements ⇒ completely new thing

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Ontological pluralism - Interventionism

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(Nicolas Malebranche): Only God, who created both material & spiritual reality, could control them.
-> Instead of the pineal gland, God constantly intervenes between body and mind, matter and spirit (against Descartes)

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Ontological pluralism - Attributive pluralism

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Linguistic category as an ontological criterion. Things exist because we know them and label them.

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What are the 3 different types of ontological monism?

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(1) Materialism
(2) Idealism
(3) Double aspectism

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What are all the types of ontological monism materialism?

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(1) atomism
(2) behaviourism
(3) epiphenomenalism

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What are all the types of ontological monism idealism?

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(1) theory of pure forms
(2) subjective empiricism
(3) monadology

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What are all the types of ontological pluralism?

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(1) dualism
(2) emergentism
(3) attributive pluralism
(4) interventionism

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Atomism

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Ontological monism. The universe is built of material atoms. Sees the human soul as a set of delicate atoms, nothing more. Democritus.

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Behaviourism

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Ontological monism. (Watson): Only brain. No psyche.

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Epiphenomenalism

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Ontological monism. (Titchener): Material brain is real, the mind is not. It is merely an appearance.

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Theory of pure forms

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Ontological idealism. (Plato): Only ideas exist.

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Subjective empiricism

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Ontological idealism. (Berkeley, Kant): We cannot find the real thing cuz we don’t have access to them.
-> We don’t know how this table looks like (only retinal object) - maybe if i was a wolfe, my image would be different.

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Monadology

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Ontological idealism. (Leibniz): Universe composed of immaterial/indivisible entities called monads. Fundamental building blocks of reality. God = supreme monad.

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Dualism

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Ontological pluralism

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Emergentism

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Ontological pluralism

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Attributive pluralism

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Ontological pluralism

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Epistemology (8)

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(1) sensory/empirical observations (Locke/Aristotle)
(2) pragmatic (practical actions)
(3) inductive reasoning
(4) deductive reasoning
(5) intuitive insight into inborn ideas
(6) subconscious emotional intuition (heuresis)
(7) meditative illumination (henosis)
(8) mystic and religious revelation (numinous instruction)

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Epistemology - Theories of Intuitive illumination

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(1) Intellectual insight (Plato): Eureka feeling.
(2) Henosis, immersion in the cosmic wisdom (Plotinus): Meditation, imagine in the cosmic knowledge of the divine.
(3) Numinous answer or instruction (Bergson): Numinous experience. Getting information from the divinity, when you contemplate.
(4) Message from the Collective unconscious (Jung)

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Epistemology - Theories of Inborn ideas (4)

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(1) Inborn soul (Socrates): At birth, our soul is already equipped with wisdom, knowledge and virtue
(2) Inborn categories of mind (Kant): We are born with categories of mind (aka: space, time, cause-effect).
(3) Instincts (Freud): We equipped with a knowledge of how to survive.
(4) Archetypes (Jung)

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Epistemology - what’s the difference between Inductive and Deductive reasoning?

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Inductive: observations -> theory
Deductive: theory -> observations

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Two ways of concluding

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A posteriori: observation -> conclusion
A priori: conclusion -> observation

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Existential wonders (3)

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(1) Nonorganic matter - out of nothing (ex nihilo)?
(2) Organic life - out of nonorganic mater? (who coded it? how life started to exist?)
(3) Psyche (awareness) & Mind (consciousness): out of what psyche started? how did it start?

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The pressure of myths or ideology to falsely interpret the facts - Books

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George Orwell - “Nineteen Eighty Four” and Aldous Huxley - “Brave New World”
-> forcefully imposed ideology through mass media/education

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Wilhem Friedrich Hegel on Zeitgeist-Ortgeist approach

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Believed in the existence of the “soul/spirit of the nation” and “spirit of the times”.
-> In both cases, he suggested that the society living in a specific epoch acts in the way consistent with its “essence” or “soul”.
-> The artists, thinkers and political leaders of the epoch are simply the embodiments of the spirit of the times.

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Zeitgeist etymology

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Zeit = kind (kind of opinion)
Geist = spirit

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Ortgeist etymology

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Ort = place in german
Geist = spirit

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Who wrote “psyche” for the first time? in what book?

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Aristotle in his book (in greek) Peri psyches.
-> original manuscript lost but translated by Byzantine monks, islamic/jewish scholars
-> Survived under the title “The Anima”

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Marko Maruličhistory

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First to say the world “psychology” (word in greek - rest in latin).
Croatia - Christian Monk.
Book didn’t survive the wars BUT we know about it from his friend that wrote his biography.

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Johannes Thomas Freigius (not rly important)

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In the Book: Ciceronianus -> In his description of human nature, used the term “psychology”

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Rudolph Goclenius (Goeckel)

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Renaissance. Used the term psychology quite frequently in an essay in Latin entitled “Ψυχήλογία, that is, on human perfection the soul and its origin.”
=> Invited several thinkers (philosophers, theologicians, lawyers, physicians…) to write diff chapters debating several essential psychological questions, such as: When the human being starts to exist? At the moment of fertilization or at birth?

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“Psychology”replaced by “Pneumology”

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Soon after Goeckel’s death, “psychology” disappeared from the literature. After his death, the term was replaced by “pneumology” (from greek - “breath of life”).

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Christian Wolff

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Reintroduced the word psychology in his books: Psychologia empirica (i.e. Empirical psychology) and Psychologia rationalis (i.e. Rational psychology)

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Why “Psychology”replaced by “Pneumology”?

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New term probably due to people’s preference for a more naturalistic concept.

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Wilhelm Wund

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1879: Established psychology as an autonomous domain of science (divorced from philosophy)
=> Then, pple wanted to change the name of psychology. Despite rapid progress in this new field, psychology was about to lose ascendancy to behaviourism

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John Watson

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Radical behaviourism, rejection of mental mechanisms, study of human’s reactions to stimuli.
“Psychology should be avoided”
=> Reductio ad absurdum = Reduct things to absurd

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Albert Bandura

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Then, discontent with behaviorism: not satisfied with the imission of mechanisms mediating between stimuli and reactions.
=> Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory (new approach to human behavior) restores the mental mechanisms back in psychology. Dissociate from behaviorism. Restored meaning of psychology

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Rationalism

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Epistemological way of attaining knowledge and making conclusions. Style of debating.

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What’s the opposite of rationalism?

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Empiricism

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Rational inductive or deductive reasoning is the opposite of ______

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Empirical, pragmatic, intuitive, or mystic reasoning.

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Rational

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Norm of discussing and listening to arguments and reasons (the ratio)

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Irrational

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Opposite of rational. Ignoring logical arguments and practical evident facts, using false analogies, personal prejudices and argumentum ad hominm.

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Paradigm

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Set of assumptions, values and methods that provide the framework within which scientists work.
-> Faire attention que ça devienne pas dogmatic

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Components of a paradigm (2)

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(1) Disciplinary matrix of axioms (unquestionable set of assumptions) - e.g. Freux & unconscious
(2) Shared exemplars of methods - e.g. dream analysis/free association…

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