HESL 024: An Introduction to the Arts Sciences * Think about how the story of John Allen Chau and the Sentinel Islands relates to either (a) the Allegory of the Cave or (b) The thought experiment with the ship that sinks Unit 4 - Theories of Anxiety * How does the mind work according to each of the 3 schools of psychology? How does each school explain anxiety and propose treatments for it? * Psychoanalysis and the metaphor of the iceberg * ld, ego, superego The case of Little Hans * Treatment of anxiety * Talk therapy: finding the source of anxiety buried in the unconscious to be able to deal with it * Behaviourism and the metaphor of the blank slate * Classical and operant conditioning The case of Little Albert * Treatment of anxiety * Exposure therapy: Little by little facing fears (think of the lady and the cockroaches) * Cognitivism and the metaphor of the computer * Appraisal * Treatment of anxiety: * Cognitive Behaviour therapy: Little by little facing fears + replacing unhelpful beliefs and ways of thinking Unit 5(a) - Identity \"The Complexity of Identity\" Looking-Glass Self * Intersectionality Hierarchy e Dominant (advantaged) and Subordinate (disadvantaged) Unit 5(b) - The Banality of Heroism The \"banality of evil\" Milgram shock experiment @ What is it? How did it work? * Bystander effect and the case of Kitty Genovese * The \"banality of heroism\" and the \"heroic imagination\" * How can ordinary people be ready to be heroes