PSY 222 Study Guide - Final Guide: Oedipus Complex, Narrative Therapy, Pseudobulbar Affect

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Understand the connection between the enlightenment and the object of study in traditional personality psychology. Describe two broad approaches to studying the person that focus alternately on internal and social dimensions of the person (described by burr as sociological" and psychological" social psychologies). Be aware of connections between personality psychology and other disciplines in the social sciences, as well as between personality psychology and other sub disciplines in psychology. Describe the three historical periods of personality psychology as outlined by mcadams. The enlightenment: a turning point in history when people turned away from the religious teachings to empirically find out how the world operates. Descartes" dualism: pure thought (mind; subjective and internal) and objective (body; external and material in nature); one cannot exist without the other. Individualism: focusing solely on the person, not so much concerned with the environment; psychological social psychology; emphasizes the autonomy and independence of the individual over and against the collective.

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