PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Unconditional Positive Regard, Psychodynamics, Abraham Maslow
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We want to know what drives people, and how people differ in this regard. Psychodynamic theories are essentially motivational: talking about the different forces (esp the traditional freudian theory and forces: sexual and aggressive) and how they work together to form aspects of personality. Different aspects: need for affiliation, need for power etc: motives that are reliable in individual differences. Last week: psychodynamic theory and how the different forces motivate behaviour. This week: the self-determination theory stems from the humanistic tradition. Reaction to reductionism of behaviourism and pessimism of psychodynamics: psychodynamic: looks at how to overcome the negative aspects of personality and the negative unconscious motives vs ego. Struggles a person works to overcome that exist in their dark id and subconscious: behaviourist: personality consist of what you can actually see and that is personality. Doesn"t address anything unconscious and intrapsychic at all. How they respond to stimuli in environment personality is developed by these responses and experiences.
