PSY 150- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
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Psy 150 lecture 11 love and personality. Who are you attracted to: physical attractiveness, proximity (closeness, similarity or complementary, reciprocity of liking. What is personality: your characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Personality: character value judgements of a person"s moral (personal idea of right vs. wrong) and ethical (right/wrong comes from a group professional, cultural) behavior, temperament the enduring characteristics with which each person is born. Major perspectives: psychoanalytic (unconscious >> personality, behavioral (behavior >> personality, humanistic (ppl have control over own state, trait (diff. levels of diff. types of traits, 5 categories, social-cognitive (social thinking, how our society interacts w/ our thinking) Psychoanalytic perspective: conscious: contact w/ outside world, preconscious: material just beneath surface of awareness, unconscious: difficult to retrieve material; well below the surface of awareness. Defense mechanisms (ego: repression memories are blocked from consciousness, projection put our feelings on someone else, displacement take our feelings on someone else.
