PSYC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Personality Psychology, Personality Disorder
4 Sep 2016
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Both attempt to understand the whole person. Explain the whole person in his/her daily environment. Biological approach: seeks to understand the mind in terms of the body. Psychoanalytic approach: primary concern is with the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict. Phenomenological approach: focus on people"s conscious experience of the world. Humanistic: how conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes; understanding the meaning and basis of happiness. Cross-cultural: how the experience of reality varies across cultures. Learning and cognitive approach: how behavior changes as a result of rewards, punishments, and other experiences. Social learning: learning through observation and self-evaluation. Each ignores many key concerns advantages and disadvantages of personality psychology. Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and, surprisingly, often the opposite is true as well . The goal is to account for the whole person and real-life concerns. Disadvantages: poor at addressing other topics or ignores them pigeonholing vs appreciation of individual differences.
