PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Walter Mischel, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney
17 Apr 2016
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*no class monday the 6th of august* civic holiday. Placed less emphasis on sexuality as a driving force. More optimistic regarding the prospects for long-term personality growth. *both points different from freud, who assumed our personality was set by age 3 or 5. Alfred adler striving for superiority (style of life) neo-freudian. Inferiority complex feelings of inferiority that can lead to overcompensation. Collective unconscious shared storehouse of memories that ancestors have passed down to us. Contains archetypes cross-culturally universal emotional symbols (e. g. the care-taker, the victim, the healer, the prostitute, the mother, the father etc ) Object relations theorists emphasized children"s mental representations of others, especially their parents. Behaviourists believe personality is controlled by genetic factors and contingencies (reinforces/punishers) Determinists believe all our actions are products of pre-existing causal influences. Believe unconscious variables that play a role in causing behaviour lie outside, not inside, us. Youtube video: 4:53 on positive reinforcement (the big bang theory)
