PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oedipus Complex, Behaviorism, David Buss
10 Sep 2013
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Relatively uninfluential today: don"t suggest any avenues for research or ways for therapy. Currently dominates how we view personality in the research community today. What personality is: set of characteristic, tendencies, or trait which we also inherit which are biologically based. Lends itself readily to measurement and quantification: personality tests. First new perspective on personality since ancient greece. Saw personality as the outcome of internal structure or processes. Argued that personality is shaped by things we inherit and our experiences. Freud first suggested that childhood has an effect on development. Says a lot about personality development: what happens in childhood that shapes our adult personality. Dominated all of psychology from 1960-1970 but now has faded from prominence. Says the only real information we have about anything in an individuals psyche is their behaviour. All personality is just consistent patterns of behaviour; we don"t even need the constructs of personality to understand.
