PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuroticism, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Maslow focused on potential for healthy personal growth and people"s. People motivated by hierarchy of needs and strive toward striving for self-determination and self-realization. self-actualization and self-transcendence. Roger posited that growth-promoting environment characteristics are. Unconditional positive regard/self-concept are key components of theory. genuineness, acceptance, and empathy. Humanistic psychologists sometimes assessed personality using questionnaires to evaluate their self-concept. Rogers sometimes used questionnaires in which people described their and conversations. ideal/actual selves, which was later used to judge progress during therapy. Describe differences rather than trying to explain them. Classifying people as one or another distinct personality type fails to components of intelligence. inevitably emerged as basic personality dimensions. capture their full individuality. Biology and personality normal brain arousal is relatively low. Brain-activity scans of extraverts indicate they seek stimulation because. Dopamine/dopamine-related neural activity tend to be higher in extraverts. Introversion is often misunderstood as shyness, but introverted people often simply seek low levels of stimulation from their environment.
