PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personality Psychology, Pigeonholing, Unconscious Mind
17 Jun 2019
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Personality: individual characteristic patterns of thought, motion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. Whatever is responsible for individual differences in behaviour. Paradigm (basic approach): a systematic, self-imposed limitation (way of limiting what you look at) Psychoanalytic= unconscious mind and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflicts. Humanistic: what makes conscious awareness and distinctly human attributes. Cross cultural: why might reality be different across different cultures. Learning and cognitive processes= how people change behaviour as a result of reward. Social learning: how mental processes determine which behaviours are learned and how they are performed. Cognitive personality: applies insight from the study of perception, memory, and thought. Approaches often portrayed as competitors, but most realistically they complement and overlap with each other while addressing a different set of questions about human psychology. Obt would be relatively poor at explaining lots of approaches whereas distinct approaches can explain a subset much better.
