PSYB30H3 Lecture 11: Personality Lecture 11
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Lecture 11: chapters 14 15 and 16, no psychotherapy no philosophy, Art, science: supportive vs reconstructive, reconstructive you can change someone"s personality, how they function, supportive you"re just there for them. better, give them a. Careful to distinguish between philosophical assumptions and his scientific hypotheses. Emphasis on subjectivity and the individual"s internal frame of reference made scientific research difficult. Major criticism of rogers"s position is that based on simplistic concept of phenomenology. View of development and actualization of self may be highly culture-bound. Positive psychology: seeks to study and understand the complex positive behavior of people in order to emphasize the systematic building and amplifying of human strengths and virtues, research topics include, positive experience, positive personality, positive social context. Existentialism emphasizes existence rather than essence (unchanging laws or principles that govern existence). No truth or reality except as we participate in it.
