PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Personality umbrella: traits are under the umbrella, extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience. Psychodynamic umbrella: grand theories , sigmund freud (psychoanalytic, carl jung (analytic psychology, alfred adler (individual psychology) Textbook (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Two layers of the unconscious mind: personal unconscious, collective unconscious. Good: unconscious forces influence behaviour, internal conflict often plays a role in psychological distress, early childhood can impact adult personality, people do use defense mechanisms. Bad: poor testability, inadequate evidence, sexism, unrepresentative samples. Argued that the environment is what we study, and your reaction to the environment is what we study. We can"t tell what is going on inside, so we talk about the stimulus situation (stimulus response reinforcement) that reinforcement made the response more likely. Classic tool skinner box (rat lever food) Figure 12. 5 a a behavioural view of personality . Differences = product of what comes from without (environment)
