PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unconscious Mind, Learned Helplessness, Social Cognition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psychodynamic theories: views human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus in the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Free association psychoanalysis: the method of exploring the unconscious mind in therapy. The person relaxes and says anything that comes to mind 2: 1)the trait perspectives focus on describing personality but do not offer an explanation: trait perspectives consider traits as the one major cause of behaviour and disregard situational and environmental factors. Mischel: says traits are poor predictors of behaviours. Epsteis: says if you are going to use traits to predict behaviour in a speci c situation, then they are a poor predictor. but if they are used to predict average behaviour across similar situations, the traits are good predictors. We learn them because we get a payoff. According to the behavioural perspective, personality is shaped by environment.