PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Humanistic Psychology, Nomothetic, Personality Psychology
9 Dec 2011
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Whirlwind tour of personality psychology: elaborate and formalized answer to the question what do we need to know in order to know someone well? . Trait psychology: enduring, general characteristics, big questions. When asked to describe someone else, most people use traits to describe people. To get to know someone, we have to understand their traits. Trait psychology is the formalization of the common-sense approach to people. This is why we believe that the concept of traits may be an illusion. People"s traits are very modestly correlated amongst many situations (barely 0. 3. Psychodynamic personality psychology: unconscious wishes and fears. Especially childish wishes and fears and ones that are in conflict with one another. In order to know someone, you must know their conscious and unconscious wishes and fears. o everyone. o opportunities in life. An unconscious motive can be proving to your mother that you are just as much of a man as your father.
