PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Unconscious Mind, Construals, Personality Psychology
11 Apr 2014
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Personality brings together into a complete account of what people think, how they feel and what they do: leads to theories that are deep & complex, empirical methodologies that are sophisticated, complicated and difficult. Important to ask what do i do now know about people that i didn"t know before? . Psychologists attempting to learn about personality have taken several approaches. Focus of approaches: trait approach, biological approach. Concentrates on the architecture and function of the. Focuses on individual differences, the personality traits that make every individual psychologically unique nervous system and on the heritability and evolutionary history of behavioural patterns complicated effects of motivations and conflicts of which we are not even aware. Focuses on moment to moment conscious awareness, and the way experiencing life one moment at a time might give us free will and the ability to choose how we see reality. Focuses on the unconscious mind and the: psychoanalytic approach, humanistic approach.
