PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Phlegm, Personality Psychology, Classical Conditioning
30 Mar 2017
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Theories of personality: psychodynamic, trait: innate; consistent and stable over time, humanistic: free will; personality is a choice, behavioristic: learned; reinforced; context dependent, social cognitive: interaction between thoughts and environment. Psychodynamic: emphasize unconscious motives and desires, as well as the importance of childhood experiences in shaping personality: things we can"t see going on in someone"s head, urges that we have. Psychoticism vs. socialization: main points, allport: hierarchy of traits and use of language to create traits, cattell: more data (life, experimental, questionnaire), Social cognitive: personality is a function between how one thinks and how one interacts with the social environment: applying cognitions and looking predominately at social interactions and perception of them. Non-scientific personality assessment: astrology, meyers-briggs, rorchach test, buzzfeed quizzes, hogwart"s sorting hat. Some influences on personality development (building blocks of theory: genetics, environment (learning, culture and society, self awareness, aware of yourself and your characteristics, traits, innate and carry on whole life, unconscious mechanisms, unconscious urges and desires.
