PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Humanistic Psychology, Personality Psychology, Carl Jung
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Chapter 1 the study of the person. The psychological triad: how people feel, think, and behave. Clinical and personality psychology share the obligation to try to understand whole persons: personality psychology draws heavily from social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and biological psychology. Personality refers to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) patter(cid:374)s of thought, e(cid:373)otio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d behaviour. Trying to understand everything about a person is overwhelming, one must limit themselves: observations, kinds of patterns, certain ways of thinking about these patterns. Basic approach paradigms: trait approach, biological approach, psychoanalytical approach, phenomenological approach. Humanistic psychology: pursues how conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes as existential anxiety, creativity, and free will and tries to understand the meaning and basis of happiness. Cross-cultural personality research: other phenomenological direction emphasizes the degree to which psychology and the very experience of reality might be different in different cultures. Learning approach: how people change their behaviour as a result of rewards, punishment, and other experiences in life.
