PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jester, Ambivalence, Test Anxiety

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

We are never fully integrated with out personalities, and we are always trying to get integrated. In roman times, actors would wear a persona, which is a mask that had a set of attitudes and behaviors attached to it (ex: happy mask, sad mask. Dynamics: pattern refers that personality is never set. It is dynamic, and much more dynamic than at other times. If conflict is strong enough, there is some discrepancy amongst cognitive dissonance. The two behaviors aren"t in harmony: we resolve cognitive dissonance by changing your attitude, to be harmonious to your behavior. Change your behavior is pretty much how you do it. Once you achieve statis, you feel integrated, and balance. When not in statis, we try to restasis ourselves. We spend lots of time trying to reestablish statis. Some characteristics will be entirely unique to the specific person.