PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychoanalytic Theory, Open Data Protocol, Determinism
20 Nov 2012
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Dynamic organization within an individual of those psychological systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought (allport) But it stands as athe organization of inner conflicts rather than their resolution (gay) Study of the phenomena that occur in interpersonal situations, in configurations made up of two ot more people all but one of whom may be more or less completely illusory (sullivan) That which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation (cattell) A device for representing a functionally unified system of responses (skinner) Refers to those characteristics of a person that account for the consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving (pervin, cervone, & john) Personality theories concerned with the nature of human nature; they consider . Motives, feelings, thinking, and action the forces that drive us and order our cognitive and emotional life. The recognizable continuity of personality from situation to situation and over the lifespan.
