Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Humanistic Psychology, Aerobic Exercise, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Personality beyond freud: humanistic, social cognitive. So, what is personality: people differ from each other in meaningful ways, people seem to show consistency in their behaviour, personality distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. Man"s awareness of himself acts as a constantly recycling agency to produce changes in himself . Maslow: hierarchal model deficiency needs and growth needs, physiological needs safety needs belongingness and love needs. Esteem needs cognitive needs aesthetic needs self- actualization. The self: self-verification people are motivated to maintain self-consistency and congruence, self-enhancement tendency to gain and preserve a positive self- image. Nomothetic: studies of groups and broadly shared characteristics: early greek philosophers typed personalities according to four basic types. Choleric irritable, short tempered, readily angered. Phlegmatic sluggish, dull, calm, controlled, boring. Sanguine cheerful, easygoing, slow to anger: a more recent type theory based upon the three main body types was offered by sheldon.