PSYCH-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Humorism, Cognitive Psychology
20 Jun 2020
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A person"s (unique and relatively consistent) way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Individual differences (opposite from much of psychology) Explicitly focused on how people are different from each other. Learning personality, like learning any other new subject, is really a matter of learning new vocabulary words. Learning the vocabulary of personality will make describing people much easier and more accurate. A philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated (at least) eight paradigms: Psychoanalytic focus is largely on unconscious motives, desires; particularly sex. Neo-analytic still focuses on unconscious motives, but more focused on self-esteem and how one fits into society. Biological- focuses on our biology (genes, instincts, evolution, etc. ) Behaviorist- focuses on science of learning, impact of rewards, punishment. Cognitive- emphasizes human thought, draws from modern cognitive psychology. Trait- how people differ from one another.
