PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Amygdala, Construals, Frontal Lobe
6 Sep 2013
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Part vi: what personality does: learning, thinking, feeling and knowing. Impossible to account for everything at once must limit selves to a certain perspective and to the questions and variables that seem most important. Each psychological approach focuses on limited number of key concerns. Trait approach focuses on individual differences; personality traits that make every individual psychologically unique. Biological approach concentrates on the architecture and function of the nervous system and on the heritability and evolutionary history of behavioural patterns. Psychoanalytic approach focuses on the unconscious mind and the complicated effects of motivations and conflicts of which we are not even aware. Learning and cognitive approaches focus on how rewards and punishments in the environment shape behaviour, and how behaviour is in many ways a function of its situation. Modern cognitive research into personality emphasized basic mental processes relevant to perception, memory, motivation, emotional, and the cluster of memories and attitudes called the self .
