PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Humanistic Psychology, Personality Psychology, Unconscious Mind
16 Jun 2013
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Personality psychology addresses all three parts of the psychological triad: how people think, feel and behave inconsistencies between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Personality refers to an individuals" characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. Basic approach: limited to certain kinds of observations, patterns and ways of thinking about these patterns trait approach: focus on ways people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured. Biological approach: address biological mechanisms such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution and their relevance for personality. Psychoanalytic approach: concerned with the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict. Phenomenological approach: focus on people"s conscious experience of the world: Humanistic psychology: pursues how conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes as existential anxiety, creativity, and tries to understand the meaning and basis of happiness.
