PS271 Study Guide - Final Guide: Authoritarian Personality, Conscientiousness, Psychoticism
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We are not in control of our actions. With: there are powerful forces within us that we are unaware of and control us - therefore, we need a model that has an ego component. Based his theory entirely on clinical case studies: analyzed via the method of free association, felt this form of evidence was the only one that provided enough detail about the mind of the individual. Conscious perceptions of the present rather than merely unconscious residues of the past. Interpersonal experiences encountered across the course of life rather than merely parental relations in childhood. People"s capacity to grow toward psychological maturity rather than merely their tendency to repeat childhood conflicts. Roger"s theory is phenomenological: it emphasizes the individual"s subjective and conscious experience of his or her world. Roger"s way of scientifically studying personality: we should not study personality in an objectively, part of the mind that holds what one is currently scientific way. aware of, ego executive mediator.
