PSY 401 1st Edition Lecture 33 Outline of Last Lecture I Gestalt Psychology a Gestalt b Perception i Principles of Organization c Learning i Wolfgang Kohler Outline of Current Lecture II III Gestalt Psychology a Learning b Productive Thinking Humanitarian Reform a Demonology and witchcraft i Trephination ii Profession of exorcism iii Middle Ages iv Rise of Witchcraft Current Lecture I II Gestalt Psychology a Learning i Mentality of Apes 1 Video monkeys putting water in tube insight to get a peanut 2 Learning cooperation and asking for help b Productive Thinking Wertheimer 1945 i Reproductive thinking reorganization of problems to find solution 1 Reorganize information in a novel way 2 Example nine dot problem 4 lines for 9 dots people do not think to go outside the border get fixated and don t think outside the box 3 Example Famous Story of a young Gauss a Adding up 1 2 3 10 did it way quicker because just did 11x5 new way of thinking Humanitarian Reform These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute a Demonology and Witchcraft i Trephination ancient technique of chipping drilling holes in the skull to allow release of psychopathology of evil spirits ii Profession of exorcism 1 Prayers and averse concoctions so gross that it would cause them to vomit and expel evil spirits iii Middle Ages 1 Dance manias a Tarantism had seen tarantula probably bitten caused them to flail dance i Treatment encouraged them to keep moving so it would separate out venom like a centrifuge b St Vitus Dance locked in a room with musicians until people collapsed from exhaustion c Moonstruck behavior about full moon 2 Biting Mania started with a group of nuns biting each other 3 Lycanthropy delusion they thought they were wolves caused by wolf blood treat by draining blood by chopping off limb iv Rise of Witchcraft 1 Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger 1486 Malleus Maleficarum book to identify witches a Widespread dissemination lots of languages countries etc b Sections i Classification of witches 1 Witches demons cause pathology 2 Witches were usually women assertive outspoken ii Methods of Witchcraft 1 Glare dolls 2 Lots of symptoms agitated irritable depressed iii Courtroom procedures 1 No evidence would just say because I am cursed 2 Death penalty and torture
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