PSYC 1630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rorschach Test, Middle Frontal Gyrus, Psychodynamics
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I am tall, smart, ambitious, caring, good listener, nice, shy, and happy . Personality: the science of personality explores individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving. Characteristics that are consistent across time and situations. Id: your wild child (basic nature, primal desires) Ego defence mechanism: allows unconscious expression of the id. Displacement : redirecting your negative feelings to safer target. Humanist: humanists believed that human nature is innately good and rational. While psychodynamic theory studied people to understand makeup personality usually successful people. Basic human needs (needs for self-actualization (needs for positive regards) Other responses (unconditioned positive regards, condition positive regards) Researchers believed these may be core traits of personality. High openness people enjoy seeking out new experience in: Internal and external aspects of human nature determines behavior. We can learn from others consequences( both reward and punishment) This learning shapes our own behavior and subsequently our personality. Internal locus of control: in control of experiences and outcomes.
