PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Josef Breuer, Anal Stage

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Niemiec

Document Summary

What is personality: a(cid:374) e(cid:374)du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:396)e(cid:863) that e(cid:373)(cid:271)odies ou(cid:396) disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t patte(cid:396)(cid:374) of thoughts, feelings, motives, values, and behaviors. Approaches to personality: the psychoanalytic approach. Our identity is defined by forces we have no control or awareness of: the humanistic approach. A reaction against behaviorism and the psychanalytic approach. People are more than machine responding to the environment. We move naturally towards self-actualization: the social-cognitive approach. Believed that behaviorists and humanists are both right. Humans respond to the environment, but also have the capacity of thought. Humans can determine how to respond the stimuli: the trait approach. Sigmund freud: born in modern day czech republic, was very intelligent, always at the top of his class, became a practicing neurologist, worked with jean charcot. Charcot was a french psychologist interested in hysteria. Hysteria is when there are physical symptoms that have no biological basis.