PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow
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Something we tell ourselves that are less threatening than actual reasons we might do something. Unconscious feeling reducing anxiety: displacement. Unconscious impulses that you cannot act out and you put those same impulses on a different target: denial. Your behavior is driven by some sort of effort to conquer. Childhood anxiety triggers desire for love and security: testing. Rorschach inkblots: original test used 10 inkblots, tapping into the unconscious thoughts. Gordon allport thought freud spent too much time on the unconscious. Trait- a characteristic behavior or a disposition to feel and act. The big five factors**- cover both sides of the spectrum. Social-cognitive theory: hereditary component to these, the person-situation controversy questions trait theories, social-cognitive theories incorporate both traits and social context, reciprocal determinism- behavior, internal cognition, and environment interact to influence personality** Our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events. Our personalities help create situations in which we react.
