PSYCH 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Behavior, Emotional Security, Gordon Allport
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Rejected psychoanalysis" fixation on the past, and the unconscious. It makes no sense to study personality starting with people who are suffering from psychological disorders. A midwestern approach to personality reflecting his interest in everyday life and everyday people, and conscious experience. Major contributions to the psychology of prejudice and religion. The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to the environment. (allport, 1937) Aspects of experience that are essential, precious (or warm), and central. Allport saw this sense of self developing from childhood to adulthood. A system of motivation in which the tensions that drive behavior are fundamentally different from those that first caused the behavior. Motives that retain their potency because they express our deepest and most cherished self-wishes . Human behavior is contemporary and so are human problems. We need to talk about what is driving behavior now, not some childhood experiences.
