PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Reticular Formation, Selective Mutism, Tardive Dyskinesia
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Personality: characteristic thoughts, emotional responses and behaviours that is relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Personality trait: a characteristic; a dispositional tendency to act in certain ways over time and across circumstances. Approaches to studying personality that emphasize personal experience and belief systems they propose that people seek personal growth through greater self-understanding to fulfill their human potential. Positive psychology: researches subjective well-being: maslow: desire to become self-actualized is the ultimate and most important human motive. Recall maslow"s theory of motivation (chapter nine: rogers: most prominent humanistic psychology is, emphasized people"s subjective understandings of their whole lives, seligman: positive psychology movement. Broaden and build theory positive emotions prompt people to consider novel solutions to their problems. Main point: factors exist at more than a descriptive level. Kelly: personal constructs develop through people"s experiences and represent their interpretations and explanations for events in their social world.
