Psychology 2550A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Body Fluid, L-Dopa, Positron Emission Tomography

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Stephen Erdle

Document Summary

projective: unconscious motives through ambiguous stimuli: l data: life data (university transcript, etc. , o data: observer reports (someone else rating your personality, b data: behavioural data (direct observation) Involved physiological data (pulse, etc. ) y 2 types of analyses: weak situation: behaviour controls situation - no situational cues (yield sign) reciprocal determinism (bandura): personality, situation, and behaviour influence each other: nature/nurture debate. gene-environment correlation: genetics affect personality through the environment. 2 types: y active: genes make you seek environments that influence behaviour y reactive: certain genes make you react to the behaviour. Freud y first to use scientific method to test hypotheses. Chapter 2: psychodynamic theory y used positivism to look at psychological disorders y psychic determinism: our behaviours are determined by psychological processes/energy (actually neuronal functioning. Id: pleasure principle, unconscious: ego: mediator, partially conscious, superego: rules of morality, partially conscious. Social/family influences in personality development are as important as sexual influences.