PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Tabula Rasa, Discriminant, Fatalism
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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, growth-inducing behavior. A hierarchy of needs, running from physiological and safety needs to esteem and actualization needs. Personal constructs, beliefs, values, expectancies, schemas, cognitive styles. Self-developmental theories and concepts: stages, pathways, developmental tasks. Psychology of personal constructs: basic categories for construing subjective experience. Broad dimensions of personality that describe assumedly internal, global, and stable individual differences in behavior, thought, and feeling. Traits account for consistency in individual functioning across different situations over time. More particular facets of personality that describe personal adaptations to motivational, cognitive, and developmental challenges and tasks. Characteristic adaptations are usually contextualized in time, place, situation or social role. Internalized and evolving narratives of the self that people. Earliest memory construct to integrate the past, present and purpose, and meaning.
