PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis, Unconditional Positive Regard, Learned Helplessness

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Behavioral: is groups of learned habits and responses, which is the product of operant conditioning and classical conditioning. Personality characteristics are basically behavioral pattern that shaped and reinforced by the environment. Thoughts and cognition contribute to personality (---social learning theories) Humanistic (less supported by ): (rejecting psychodynamics and behavioral theories) free will and self-development, impediments to self-actualization. Openness to experience: describes an individual"s willingness to participate in new experiences, having a wide set of interests, and being creative/imaginative. Consciousness: describe how organized, methodical, disciplined and motivated one is. Extraversion: describe how talkative, outgoing and assertive one is. Agreeableness: describe how kind, sympathetic and affectionate one is. Neuroticism: describe the extent to which one is anxious and tense. Fixation: energies remain focused on a particular stage or activity without progress. Defense mechanisms: mental systems that become active whenever unconscious instinctual drives of the id come into conflict with the internalized prohibitions of the superego: categorizing defenses.