PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reaction Formation, Libido, Freudian Slip
24 Jan 2017
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Unique enduring pattern of thoughts, feelings actions characterizing a person. Compared and contrasted with those of others. Implies a consistent pattern of attitudes and behavior, or at least an orderly arrangement in behavior. Humanistic emphasize positive, optimistic view of human nature: goodness and potential for growth. Existentialist focus on individual as responsible agent, negotiating the issue of meaning and the reality of death. Ask about a person"s thoughts, feelings, and behavior. I wake up with a headache almost every day. I have had peculiar and disturbing experiences that most other people have not had. Unstructured stimuli create maximum freedom of response. Scoring is relatively subjective, though some objective methods exist. Reliability and validity lower than objective tests impulses. Subject to distortion and non- conscious personal biases. Describe people in terms of a number of behavior-determining tendencies (on a continuum) Earliest example - the four humors (bodily fluids) - typology (categories rather than dimensions) Excess of yellow bile, bad-tempered and irritable.
