PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Preconscious, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Children that are in different ordinal places in family tend to display different styles of personality such as siblings competing for attention in family: younger children have better social/interactional skills than, we often use vernacular (everyday) terms to describe personality like intelligent, older siblings extroverted, conscientious, pleasant, moody, etc. Approaches to personality: descriptive (trait theories, biological or genetic (dispositional theories, learning (behavioral and cognitive social learning theories, thinking patterns in relation to social contexts, psychodynamic (freud, humanistic, existential, phenomenological, humanistic perspective: people have free will which affect future behavior, result of actions affect who you become, existential perspective: rooted in post war europe, phenomenological perspective: descriptive approach with a lot of subjectivity, each approach has its own set of assumptions about the determinates of personality, many forms of psychological illness are attribute to dysfunctional personality and personality development, therefore, different forms of therapy often follow the various approaches to personality, ex.
