PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Abraham Maslow, Personality Test, Iceberg

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Kevin Hamilton

Document Summary

It is rare for siblings to have the same personality, as they compete for resources. Younger children tend to develop a more social personality. Independent thinking is advocated in individualist cultures, whereas group harmony is more important in collectivist cultures: we often use vernacular terms to describe personality (e. g. intelligent, extroverted, conscientious, pleasant, moody) Psychologists are interested in: characterizing and describing personality traits, studying the relationship between personality traits and behaviour, understanding and predicting behaviour from personality traits (e. g. forensics, personnel selection) Articulates what is observed and places little emphasis on explaining the observed behaviours. 1: biological or genetic (dispositional theories, learning (behavioural and cognitive social learning theories, psychodynamic, humanistic , existential or phenomenological. The humanistic perspective assumes that people have free will and that they continuously make choices. The existential philosophy assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves. Thus, different forms of therapy often follow different approaches.