PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Determinism, Karen Horney, Hans Eysenck

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Ayesha Khan

Document Summary

Certain characteristics that allow you to behavior in a particular way. Psychoanalytic theory: freudian perspective, development, personality is fixed as a consequence of the experiences you had in childhood. Social cognitive learning theory: social component and interaction, cognitive component (thinking capabilities and organizing information, learning component a response to a stimulus or an event in an environment. Humanistic theory: idea that human beings are fundamentally are the kinds of creatures that want to achieve the best they can in life. Set of genes your parents had, and grandparents had: there are genes coding for certain kinds of characteristics. The aim of personality is to: construct general theories of personality, assess individual differences in personality. Sigmund freud (1856-1939: came to understanding psychology through biological perspective. Freud invoked a role of unconscious processes in the control of behavior: based on his observations of clients. 1 level is at the top of our psyche small amount of space in an individuals mind.