PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Unconditional Positive Regard, Walter Mischel, Julian Rotter

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner

Document Summary

Objective measures: self-reports, informant ratings (involves other related people) Personality: the characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Superego (internalized ideas) preconscious mind (outside awareness but accessible) Emphasize personal experience and belief systems; propose that people seek personal growth to fulfill their human potential. Self-concept (or self) as "the organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about one self. Incongruent: not many over-lapping between ideal self and self. Focuses on individual characteristics but not relationships with others (western) Focuses on who you with, different interactions (eastern) v. Internal locus of control - i control my future. External locus of control - things happen on us and we can"t control them v. The process by which people alter or change their behavior to attain personal goal. It is difficult, involve postponing short term rewards in the pursuit of long-term goal = self control v.