PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion And Introversion
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We owe to him the idea of an inferiority or superiority complex. Many of these concepts, especially the unconscious, is hard to test. People like freud and jung based their theorizing on their discussions with their own clients, and humans are bad at telling the truth. It is too pessimistic, they take a dim view of the human picture (what we are good at and what we are made of). These perspectives are a very male and western bias. He (cid:449)ould sa(cid:455) that (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e perso(cid:374)alities, all that is happe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is that when we behave in certain situations we are picking from a certain amount of responses that are presented to us. Some of the things that we do are learned in the way that skinner might suggest: observation learning. The idea that a lot of what we do we have copied from others that we have seen before.
