PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Determinant, Freudian Slip, Frontal Lobe
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Micro-dynamics: a smaller personality dynamic that involves one part of personality influencing another ex. how guilt might interfere with love. Dynamic traits: a class of long-term stable mental patterns related to motives, including such examples as n achievement, sensation-seeking, and the like can propel a person to initiate dynamics throughout their personality. Meso-dynamics (mid-level): a dynamic that crosses two or three major functional areas of personality ex. the influence of motives on emotions. Causal attribution: models of the self and world that are especially focused on what causes a particular behavior, event, or situation. Some people tend to see the world as caused by themselves, others tend to see the world as caused by other people or situations. Macro-level dynamics: a larger dynamic that crosses all or almost all the many major functional areas or parts of personality ex. dynamics of action. Urge: the conscious psychological awareness of a need usually momentary, ex.
