PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Positive Psychology, Personality Psychology, Self-Actualization

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Christa Philips

Document Summary

The importance of subjective experience: primary data for personality psychology. Your personal experience of the world should be the ultimate authority according to these people. Subjective experience of reality serves as the basis for everything we do (freud), not the external object. Accepted that behavior may be unconscious, did not agree that most behavior is unconscious. Carl rogers you need to work inside the black box . Phenominal feel everything that occurs inside the organism conscious (symbolize, aware of, verbalize) and unconscious (cannot be symbolize/verbalized) material. Rogers on mental health: ability to symbolize experiences accurately and completely, distortion, repression, unable to sense fully. Pathological things that go wrong in personality functioning. Positive psychology is a response to this call. Mentally healthy person can symbolizes these experiences, accurately and completely. The unhealthy person - distorts their experiences, represses experiences and sense them fully. Their unhealthy experience is what we should address.