PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Anna Freud, Freudian Slip, Defence Mechanisms

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Attributional styles and accommodation: attributional style: how one partner explains the others" behaviour. Happy couples attribute good outcomes to each other and bad ones to external situations. Accommodation: partner enhancing attributions in which they overlook bad behaviour or respond constructively. Gottman: why marriages succeed or fail and how you can make yours last: outlines differences between happy couples and unhappy ones. Validating couple: each partner considers the other"s opinions and emotions valid. Show interest in your partner, be affectionate, show you care, spend quality time, maintain loyalty and fidelity, learn to handle conflict. Personality trait: a characteristic, a disposal tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. Allport definition of personality (1937): the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour. Organization means that personality is not just a series a traits, but a dynamic coherent whole, because it is goal seeking, sensitive to context, and adaptive to environment.