PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Factor Analysis, Zygote, Endocrinology

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

Psychobiological and lexical approaches to personality: psychobiological: differences between personality; we can trace important traits in personality to important traits in biology, lexical: ways in which people differ can be traced back to language, differing perceptions. Psychodynamic: view human nature as inherently negative within us lie this dangerous urges and they need to be controlled by socialisation. Humanistic: carl rogers said the great thing about this approach we can find human animal instincts are position we are. Cognitive and behavioural: look at observed behaviour and try to explain all personality to basic conditioning. Deterministic theories: psychodynamic: and behavioural: who you are is determined by forces acting upon you i. e. learning experiences etc. Non-deterministic: existential: individuals" choices in how they behave isn"t determined by past leanings. Subjective phenomenon: others are interested in what people say choices and radical free-will. about their experiences which are subjective. Objective approach: behaviours: we can only look at observable objective behaviours.