PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jane Loevinger, Pollination Syndrome, Erik Erikson

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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Table 1. 3 a selection of characteristic adaptations and a selection of corresponding classic theories. Motivational theories and concepts: drives, needs, motives, goals, strivings, personal projects, current concerns. More than 20 psychogenic needs, such as needs for achievement, power, and affiliation/intimacy. Fundamental need for self-actualization motivates healthy, growing-inducing behavior. A hierarchy of needs, running from physiological and safety needs to esteem and actualization needs. Socio-cognitive theories and concepts: personal constructs, beliefs, values, expectancies, schemas, cognitive styles. Psychology of personal constructs: basic categories for construing subjective experience. Self-development theories and concepts: stages, pathways, developmental tasks. Punctuality personality that describe internal, global, and stable individual differences in behavior thought and feeling: account for consistency in individual function across different situations and over time. Goals, motives, and life plans adaptations to motivational, cognitive, and developmental challenges and tasks. Psychosocial stages in time, place, situation, or social role.