Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Belongingness, Existential Crisis, Sensation Seeking

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Core concept of personality stability in behaviour over time and across situations behavioural difference among people reacting to the same situation. Personality refers to an individuals"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. A personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Poor testibility: psychodynamic ideas are too vague to allow a clear scientific test, concepts like ego, superego and id are hard to measure. Inadequate evidence: empirical evidence is inadequate, approach depends on case studies in which it is easy for clinicians to see what they want. Sexism: harbor a bias against women, female penis envy made them inferior to men, dismissed female reports of sexual molestation as fantasies, *sexism isn"t unique to freudian theories, male-centered viewpoint. Behavioural perspectives behaviour: view personality as, theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study observable, a collection of response tendencies that are tied to various stimulus situations.