PSYC2011 : PSYC1001 Personality-Lecture-3
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Lecture 3 - cognitive & behavioural approaches to personality. Cb objections to the (then) approach(s) to personality (i. e. psychoanalysis): The clinical approach: observing people with mental health problems, doesn"t allow for generalisation (cohort/selection biases) How can we really know what is going on in one"s mind, if we. The theoretical approach (aka armchair speculation) cannot directly observe and measure it: observations and interpretations of evidence without proper scientific controls. Conclusions may be biased/subjective (issues with deductive premises) Behaviourism claims that the only valid way to know a person is through directly observing their behaviour (b-data) We can only know what we can sense, and we sense everything we need to know . The causes of personality can be found and they can be directly observed in the individual"s environment. Learning: the change in behaviour as a function of experience. Personality development is a result of learning.
