PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Extraversion And Introversion, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Unconditional Positive Regard
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What is personality: the unique aspects of people that distinguish them from others. Psychodynamic theory freud: levels of awareness. Some motivations and behaviors are not noticed by us: defense mechanisms. How we cope with anxiety produced by unconscious desires: contemporary views. Humanists: optimistic view of human personality, focused on people striving to be the best that they could be. The big five theory: most central to contemporary personality research. Social-cognitive learning theories: locus of control, reciprocal determinism, if-then relationships. Personality: characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving: like temperament in children, the study of personality rests on the assumption that there are stable individual differences between people. Opposite view: people are all the same, but influenced by environment: assumes that across time and situations, identifiable patterns emerge in people"s behavior. Of course situation influences how extroverted you are, but overtime you will notice patterns.
