PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Comparative Psychology, Normative Social Influence, Conscientiousness
16 Jul 2018
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It is positive and all people are good people. The self (set of beliefs about who we are: conditions of worth (expectations we place on ourselves - can result in incongruence). I am worthy if i do, x. We make these expectations part of our personality causing us to feel bad about ourselves. They"re are the top of the hierarchy, which means they achieved these social goals and once they are self- actualized, they don"t need to look for social approval. Experiencing a moment of flow, and to have a positive experience. Rogers" claim that our nature is entirely positive. Interested primarily in describing and understanding the structure of personality. Used factor analysis to reduce diversity of personality descriptors to underlying traits. Factor analysis is the statistical technique that analyzes the correlations among responses on personality inventories and other measures. If you take words like nice or charming, they may be labelled as agreeable.
