PSY 205 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Houck

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s unique set of consistent behavioral traits. Factor analysis: correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. Jung"s analytical psychology: collective unconscious: a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people"s ancestral past, archetypes: emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning. Adler"s individual psychology one"s abilities: compensation: involves efforts to overcome imagined or real inferiorities by developing, birth order: first-borns, second children, and later-born children enter varied home environments and are treated differently by parents. Behavioral perspectives: skinner"s ideas, external environment molds behavior, bandura"s social cognitive theory. Humanistic perspectives: roger"s person-centered theory, maslow"s theory of self-actualization. Biological perspectives: eysenck"s theory: : personality is shaped by one"s genes. Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about and are influenced by other people. They were following orders: obedience is a learned social norm.