Psychology 2035A/B Lecture 2: Class 2- Theories of Personality.docx
11 Jan 2015
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Id is entirely unconscious: largest level of awareness, most people are unaware of most processes of their behavior. Cons: poor testability (cid:224) it is too vague to subject to scientific tests, unrepresentative samples(cid:224)narrow sample of upper class, neurotic, sexually repressed viennese women, inadequate evidence (cid:224) the theories depend too much on case studies, sexism(cid:224) the theories have a male oriented bias and do not adequately address women"s issues, freud dismissing female childhood sexual abuse as fantasy, believed girls didn"t fully repress sexual urges in oedipal complex. 3 conditions: saw model rewarded with praise for aggressive behaviour(cid:224) children were, saw model reprimanded for aggressive behaviour(cid:224) children were less more aggressive aggressive, no consequences for aggressive behaviour. Perspective is based on the ideas that: humans have personal agency (free will, humans are basically good and want to make themselves better (personal growth, humans are largely rational beings driven by conscious, not unconscious, needs objective reality.
