Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Coronary Artery Disease, Agreeableness, Factor Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Personality beyond freud: humanistic, social cognitive approaches and personality measurement. So, what is personality: people differ from each other in meaningful ways, people seem to show some consistency in behavior, personality is defined as distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting. Humanistic perspective: bugental (1967;7) humanistic psychology"s" ultimate goal is the preparation of a complete description of what it means to be alive as a human being , margenau (1950;295) reality does change as discovery periods. Bugental"s six points of humanistic psychology: disavows as inadequate and even misleading descriptions of human functioning and experience based wholly or in large part on subhuman species. Self-esteem: how we feel about ourselves, high self esteem: happier, fewer interpersonal problems low self esteem: prone to psychological and physiological ailments and problems with social relationships and underachievement. The self: self-verification; people are motivated to maintain self-consistency and congruence, self-enhancement; a tendency to gain and preserve a positive self-image.