PSYCH 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karen Horney, Pigeonholing, Behaviorism
1 Feb 2017
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Personality = characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another: or = characteristics of thought, emotion, behavior, together with psychological mechanisms and motives. Personality psychology science: is a balance between uniqueness and commonalities, when sizing up others, we focus on . Architecutre of the body (genetics and how they influence personality) = biological. Conditioned responses (how you were raised/something from your past) = conditioning. Unconscious due to social relations = ego. Person-situated blend = person-situation: approaches and theorists. Trait = allport, cattell, costa, and mccrate. Biological = eysenk, gray and pickering, zuckerman. Neo-analytic = jung, adler, horney, klein, bowlby. Interactionist = murray, sullivan, mischel: development in the field of personality psychology. 1859 = darwin publishes origin of species. 1900 = freud publishes interpretation of dreams. 1917 = personality testing begins in us army to weed out people. 1970 = significant study of gender differences.
