PSYCH 2B03 Lecture : LectureNotesPSYCH2B03Fall2011
25 Nov 2012
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Is it how we are brought up or our environments: the way our genes evolve is based on the experiences we have with one another huge growing field that was just discovered in the past decade. What is human nature": has been debated upon greatly between sociologists, psychologists and biologists. Introduced by freud and psychodynamic theory: our motives, why we want/need certain things are all unknown to us because it is stored in our unconsciousness. Idiographic derived from greek meaning individual drawing"; popular in. Humanistic theory; studies a specific topic and not to make generalized statements but a specific statement pertaining to their study. More global and general: attempting to account for many aspects of psychology because it covers such a broad study, personality is huge! Long history of interest: theories of personality goes back thousands of years; very ancient and challenging field.
